Monday, February 9, 2026

Recipes

Lettuce Eat Local: E is for eggstra eggplants

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local For some foods and food terms, etymology could not appear any simpler. Blueberries, for instance, are berries that are blue; watermelon...

Lettuce Eat Local: Sweet home coleslaw

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local My answer was confident and immediate.  Waiting in line to board the plane headed to Pensacola, one of my fellow travelers was...

Final Preparations and Visiting before the Next Family Wedding

Lovina’s Amish Kitchen Lovina Eitcher, Old Order Amish Cook, Wife & Mother of Eight Sunday was baptismal services in our church for two young souls. Church attendance was bigger...

Lettuce Eat Local: We are not newcomers to cucumbers

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local I’ve checked back through my recent articles several times now, scrolling through both my file folder and the online archive. I’m...

Lettuce Eat Local: Blueberries for Sal and Kiah

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local “I’m so blue-hoo-hoo, blue-hoo-hoo, blue-hoo-hoo-hooooo, I’m so blue I don’t know what to do!” If you are in the right demographic,...

Lettuce Eat Local: Good stuff, Maynard

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local “Good stuff, Maynard!” Some of you might get that reference immediately, while the rest of you have no idea what I’m doing....

Lettuce Eat Local: Baby fever?

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local The silence in my house right now is deafening — which is a very odd thing to say when there are...

Lettuce Eat Local: Don’t throw in the trowel

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local “Should we just give up, Brian?” I asked with a deep sigh. Looking at the garden upon returning home from our...