Do you remember the secret project I hinted at this fall? It’s finally time to introduce you to the Tayse Family Cookbook! Over a year in the making, the Tayse Family Cookbook contains seasonal recipes, stories, and photographs to support dining with those you love. The Tayse Family Cookbook is optimized for tablet and e-reader reading. All recipes are original, tested, and timed. Download the .pdf ebook for $4.99 right here on Hounds in the [...]

Looking for a recipe today? I shared my mother’s Tuna Noodle Casserole with the Columbus Dispatch for their article about potato chip toppings. After a long draught of travel, this spring is shaping up to be a flood of trips. Check out our itinerary: February 2 – Cleveland – Fresh Street Pop-up February 10-11 – Cincinnati – Winter BeerFest and 5Bs Conference February 18-19 – Granville – OEFFA Conference end of February – San Salvador [...]

This past weekend, I met a woman who helped create an orphanage in Uganda last year. Seventy two total orphans, those who have no suitable mother or father, now live in a place with clean water. Seventy two beds are filled every night, seventy two bodies go off to school in the morning, and seventy two patients receive care from a nurse whenever they need it. Much of this is to the credit of a [...]

We set out to mark Robert Burns’ Day, But made the food in our own way: Haggis for meat, Wouldn’t menu be neat, If all puddings were on the buffet. Several puddings each guest did provide; Mushroom leek and corn first arrived, We made Yorkshire pud, Oh my was that good. Indian carrot completed the sides. Sup’ ended with three fine desserts; Chilled chocolate for the young squirts, J.C.‘s plum pud stuck, Our only bad [...]

Come on in and take a look around the new design at Hounds in the Kitchen. I worked with Cliff from LinKen to create a cohesive design and upgrade functionality. There’s a little widget on the side to show off recent and popular posts and an easier to read calendar of upcoming classes. Comments, sharing, and everything else works together more smoothly now. I am excited to finally feature Allie Lehman‘s logo at the top [...]

A little elf told me to black out my website in support of Internet freedom. I am not really tech-savvy enough to do that. Instead, I’ll spend some time today urging my congressmen to stop the PIPA and SOPA bills so that I and others retain the ability to express opinions without threat of censorship. Join me?   PS. Is this little elf not the cutest? My grandmother kept a canning booklet from 1935 including [...]

Today, I have a guest post from Annie Warmke, resident farmer of Blue Rock Station Green Living Farm. Annie announced an intriguing project in the fall: Thanks for Nothing, a month of no spending. Now that she’s half way through the experiment, I asked her to write a bit about how it’s going. As a business owner, a woman farmer, and a grandmother I tend to not be conventional about some of the things that [...]