The Yummy Mummy

Hi everyone -  I'm pretty thrilled to tell you that I am blogging again. Thanks for waiting me out while I did some non-blogging w...

When Cathy and I first talked about curing meat together, it was barely more than an idea for me, a sexy idea. I envisioned myself hanging ...

This month's Charcutepalooza Challenge is stretching. That means we are taking a duck or chicken and making it feed as many people as w...

This month's Charcutepalooza challenge is packing - and that means pate. I love pate of all kinds, so does David, but as we get f...

It takes great talent to mess up a Nicoise Salad. I mean, it can be served many ways but basically it has the same ingredients - tuna, potat...

Our tired, lazy, dirty, comfortable, sweltering, familiar, life in the grass. xo YM

Last weekend, I wanted to do a fun cooking project with the girls. Their friends, Nakamae and Kissa and their parents spent the weekend in t...

Where I make egg rolls for an appetizer to a much bigger dinner... And everyone decides they'd just rather have them for dinner and noth...