Homemade Pizza

October is National Pizza Month (who thinks up these “holidays”, anyway?), so let’s celebrate!
We live in an area that doesn’t have pizza delivery (we also don’t have a car, and “running out for a pizza” takes on a whole new meaning) so we make it ourselves.  Besides being a lot cheaper than a store-bought pizza, [...]



 Pickled Beets

It’s almost time to pick beets.  We still have a few quarts left from last year’s harvest, and a favorite summer side dish of ours is pickled beets.
I use home-canned beets, but the canned ones from the grocery store work just as well.
This original recipe is from the 1944 edition of The Good Housekeeping Cookbook.  [...]