Sakurai Midori, Wikimedia Commons Enhance your morning with delectable sticky buns, along with a cup of coffee, cocoa, tea or juice. The morning I sat down to write this, I was wondering what type of recipes to feature. While wondering, I was taking bite after bite of a delicious apple-cinnamon sticky roll, all gooey with a buttery, brown sugar glaze. Then it occurred to me that sticky buns/rolls would be a great subject. I won’t be able to share the recipe for the grocery-st

It is amazing how many signs of God’s blessings are available to us. Every day we experience miracles, if we only pay attention to recognize them. Yesterday I was driving away from a visit to the Madera post office. As I was making a turn, out of the corner of my eye I saw a cross. My mind told me it was one of those ornamental crosses like some people put in their yards to designate their faith in Christ. The “cross” I saw seemed to be in an odd place. It was against the s

For The Madera Tribune Craig Judd. The Chowchilla Chamber of Commerce invites the community and art enthusiasts to an evening celebrating one of Chowchilla’s most acclaimed artists. On April 25, from 4-8 p.m., the Chamber of Commerce will host an exclusive art show showcasing the extraordinary pinstriping mastery of Craig Judd at the Chowchilla American Legion Hall, 445 Trinity Avenue. A lifelong Chowchilla resident who has operated from his backyard garage studio for more t

I may have mentioned a few times in past articles that I came from the area of our country known as the “South,” and I grew up knowing quite a few expressions that are particular to that region of the United States. I’m not sure you can divide a southerner from the expressions we use. We don’t think about them. They are just part of our language. Most of them make perfect sense to others, but there are some expressions we have to explain. I had a friend many years ago who was

Feast Catering, Wikimedia Commons One of the most popular bar cookie is the lemon bar. Just about everyone loves them. Yes, we’re talking about bar cookies. Not found in a bar, but they are cut into bars. I like to make bar and drop cookies because they don’t require rolled-out dough, cookie cutters or cookie presses. These days, I find myself less eager to try recipes that take a lot of time. As a retiree, I am amazed that I have much less free time now than I did back when

Ahha, Freerangestock.com Seafood lovers cherish a platter of tasty crab legs. A cooked artichoke is a good go-along for such a meal. A favorite meal at our house involves each person getting a whole cooked Dungeness crab, cleaned, cracked and ready to eat, along with a big artichoke, both fresh from the coast. If we are very lucky, the crab has been sourced right from the docks and not from a freezer. As I am writing this, my husband is cooking and cleaning the crabs. He aske

When Punxsutawney Phil looked to see if he saw his shadow on Groundhog Day this year, the report was that he did indeed see his shadow. According to tradition, this meant we were predicted to have six more weeks of winter. Now, here it is, six weeks later, and for Madera it hasn’t looked like winter lately. In fact, it looks like we are getting ready to have some downright hot days in the near future, in MARCH. All that said, we are less than a week from the first day of spri

Jim Lukach, Wikimedia Commons Enhance your Saint Patrick’s Day meal with some freshly-baked Irish soda bread. I wasn’t going to write about the typical Saint Patrick’s Day (coming up on Tuesday, March 17) meal of corned beef and cabbage, but I decided to give it a little attention. I went grocery shopping about a week ago, and had corned beef on my shopping list, followed by a question mark, because I wasn’t sure the stores had put any out yet. I found some, just two or three