Category Archives: food

Tasting a tomatillo

February 17, 2021food, fun, Susansusanmanzke

I have been intrigued by the look of a tomatillo. Google says it’s a fruit.

This video shows me tasting it for the first time–with the help of Car-E who shows off his whiskers.

I will buy this fruit again. It had a slight citrus taste and will add something a little different to my boring meals.

Try something out of the ordinary today. When I come across an unusual fruit or vegetable, I’ll give it a try, too.

Little food experiments make life interesting.

Some fun with a blood orange and a crazy cat

February 6, 2021Car-E, food, funsusanmanzke

I’m do these posts to keep my life interesting and fun. Today I have both.

Car-E joined me at the beginning and that’s the fun part. The second half should be the interesting part.

I hope you enjoyed my efforts.

Try something new today. A blood orange might change your life … or not, but it can’t hurt.

A new/old appliance

January 13, 2021Columns, Family, food, funsusanmanzke

If you have an unheated enclosed porch, you have a refrigerator/freezer, depending on the winter weather. It has to be enclosed otherwise wild animals might raid it.

This column is an account of the time I used our porch as an extension of my refrigerator.

Our children didn’t raid the soup and stews that they found on the porch. It wasn’t until they discovered that I was cooling chocolate candies out there that the goodies became endangered–Bob liked to make a stop there, too, for a quick snack as he came into the house.

This winter, I’m using an unheated closet next to the porch as a beverage cooler. It works perfectly, too bad I don’t have a lot of company these days who would enjoy a perfectly cooled drink.

Christmas cookie baking octopus

December 22, 2020Christmas, Columns, Family, foodsusanmanzke

A few times a year I left the kitchen and let Bob take over. One time was making pie dough and another time I left was for Christmas cookie baking. I wasn’t good at either and the commotion drove me nuts.

This column covers cutout cookie baking. It was better for all of us if I stayed away. Everything just frustrated me.

I still don’t like cutting out cookies, but I love eating them. Most cutouts break for me. I’m all in when it comes to drop cookies though, especially chocolate chips.

A surprise

December 16, 2020Family, foodsusanmanzke

I was in the living room, working on another gnome, when Sunny reacted to a noise.

It turned out a delivery had been dropped off for me and it wasn’t something I had ordered.

Here’s what I got.

Thank you, Tara, for the yummy surprise.

Susan Manzke

Writer, Speaker, All-Around Good Person