Hearty Calico Beans Recipe From Grandma

When the weather dips to those colder temperatures, and the leaves start to turn? This Hearty Calico Beans recipe becomes one of my “go-to” recipes for those colder days of fall and winter. It’s kind of like comfort food – you know, like a hug from childhood in a bowl? This is something my grandma used to whip up and to this […]

How to Make Pear Honey

I have wonderful memories of visiting my mom’s aunts in Southern Illinois over the summers. Aunt Florence and Aunt Fern reminded her of her mother, who she lost to cancer when she was only four. These two women were different but had the largest hearts I ever knew. Aunt Fern had a chicken farm and did a lot of canning. […]