Pecan Pie and Pumpkin Pie
It's Feasting Time again, and don't we all love pie! Now this lazy cook/baker won't be telling you anything new about pecan pie and pumpkin pie, only this: You can whip them out in no time from the package recipe and bake them in tandem. Here you go, two-at-a-time...
Chicken-Rice Skillet
Here is another one from my “Don’t Sweat the Cooking” series. Let’s call this chicken-rice skillet my “small paella.” Far from cooking up mollusks, snails and rabbit thighs in clam juice with expensive saffron, I found my own home-cooked recipe.
Country Music Bits: Meet Lillie Mae Rische at LeMars
I didn’t fall to pieces, but I fell in love with this girl. Lillie Mae Rische drew me in at first sight and sound. She is a folk/country singer with attractive looks and great personality.
Down Home Dulcimers Doing the “Tell”
The mountain dulcimer is a soft-spoken instrument. It harmonizes well with many acoustic sets and is an important sound element in traditional country music and the Appalachian folk life. The frets are arranged in the diatonic scale. It can be tuned in the Mixolydian or Ionian mode.
Country Music Bits: Harry Rusk, Native American Minister
Harry Rusk is a widely known country music artist and Nashville performer from Alberta, Canada. He is a Native American from the Slavey tribe, born at Fort Nelson, British Columbia. In his autobiography “Beyond the Bend of the River,” Harry wrote down his painfully honest and sometimes heartbreaking life story of discrimination and survival.
Country Music Bits: Ervin Pickhinke’s John Deere Song
Meet an authentic singing farmer: Ervin Pickhinke from Sioux City, Iowa. I stumbled upon one of his performances at Bob Everhart’s festival, but, too slow, buffalo, I had missed my shot. That’s why Ervin repeated his John Deere ‘wheelings’ especially for me, because by then he had also run out of CDs.
Country Music Bits: Amazing Grace on the Zither
“My father was a carpenter, wheelwright, and passionate musician. So he decided to have a little house music with us children, my brother and I. Anderl, would soon give up on the zither. So father taught him the guitar. The zither also cut hard into my small fingers. But I practiced for hours at a time, because I wanted play it like my dad did.
Time Travel with Bob Everhart’s 40th Country Music Festival
Will the circle be unbroken? Yeah, I don’t think it ever was broken. Rather I came all the way around at Bob Everhart’s 40th country music festival. I went to LeMars. Where, Mars? No, Le Mars! That is a small town in Iowa.
That’s How You Get a Kid to College
By September you whip a spreadsheet together to control the mind-boggling deadlines and requirements for 15 open applications nationwide. Did we include the SATs, ACTs, ECCs, APs, Parchment transcripts, high school rank, essays, portfolios, recommendations, FAFSA, IDOC, resume, service hours, and certifications?
Global Warnings: Bavarian Tornadoes
Global warming is also staring me in the face in Germany. It’s heavy too. When I helped stack the yard-long logs at my old home, nobody denied it: tornadoes are not normal for Germany. They should stay with the Wicked Witch in Kansas or Oklahoma.