New Year Thrifted Tablescape, Recipe Ideas and a Quilt

Happy New Year!  For our first holiday table of 2020, I gathered together a variety of gold and black items with an Asian theme.  Amazingly, when it was done, I realized that almost everything came from thrift stores and estate sales.  Only the flowers were new.  The napkins were purchased new some time ago, and …

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Taiwanese Five Spice Pork – A Milk Street Recipe

One Saturday a couple of weeks ago, I was watching a show in Netflix in the den and DH went to the basement.  He turned on the TV, only to find that one was recording the day's Milk Street show on PBS.  He watched for a bit, and decided the recipe being demonstrated looked pretty …

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