Here's the way to start off the new year!  This is an old German recipe, handed down in my family for generations.  It is a "German...

Here is a recipe that I embrace as a New Year's Day tradition.  But I don't embrace all the superstition that is associated with it!...

Here's something just about anybody can make - "A Mess"!  That's a mess of Greens ! A mess of greens is a bunch or bunches...

Laura wrote about Christmas in all her books, even to the extent that she sometimes devoted one or more chapters in a book to the subject.  ...

According to the story of tradition, (told to Jewish children) it was after the Second Temple was desecrated by the Syrian Greeks, the Judah...

Here is one of those cookie recipes that has been passed down in my family for generations.  Lebuchen is a German spice cookie.  It is produ...

Once upon a time, many years ago; around the time that Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in the Big Woods, an elderly man lived among the trees, ne...

This cookie recipe is derived from the basic shortbread cookie recipe.  This is the version I like best.  I've made these, with great ac...

We have come to know "Ma" through Laura's books.  But I got to thinking, what do we know of her historically or intimately?  S...