Lunch is more than a meal for two longtime cooks at St. Ambrose Catholic School. It's all about the children, say Linda Ude and Joannie Carpenter, both of whom have been working in the school cafeteria since 1990."Those little faces" keep bringing them...
CROTHERSVILLE - Living at home with only her cat doesn't allow Linda Seals many opportunities to cook for other people. But with Easter this past weekend, she was able to cook and bake several items for dinner with her family. Besides baking a ham, Seals...
"Are you ready to start cooking?" asked culinary specialist Dana Elliott. "Yes!" shouted the more than 1,000 people from Jackson and surrounding counties who attended Tuesday night's Taste of Home Cooking School, held for the first time in the Seymour...
Jackson County cooks have been sharing their know-how with us for quite a while now, and in writing about them, I’ve noticed some common traits. For one thing, just as every person is unique, every dish is unique. Each cook seems to put his or her...
During Alisa Sweazy’s years at Crothersville High School, she knew her way around the basketball and volleyball court as well as the track. Not long after that, she picked up cooking and learned her way around the kitchen. Sweazy, a lifelong...
On a day when sunshine only pretends to offer warmth, Pearl Bottorff’s home serves up the real thing. Venison stew simmers on the stove, and a seductively sweet cake sits on the table, waiting to be sliced. Only a step or two away, sunlight streams...
Laura Rissler’s house is home to a couple of dogs, a couple of cats and one tiny mouse. The mouse is the really lucky one. Once destined to be lunch — or maybe just a snack — for a snake, the mouse was granted a reprieve because of the snake’s...
Teresa Kiser has lived in an old farmhouse in the Medora bottoms for most of her life. “I wouldn’t trade any of this for the world,” she said Tuesday afternoon while sitting in her dining room. “This is home.” Having lived in Medora for so long,...
It’s not easy for 5-year-old Layla Ratliff of Seymour to pick her favorite Christmas confection. “I lo-o-ove the chocolate peanut butter balls,” she said, eyes glistening, while helping her grandmother Julie Ratliff ice red and green sugar cookies...
Stephanie Brock doesn’t mind getting a little “goofy” in the kitchen or at work. As a mother of two young children and a music teacher to more than 700 elementary school students, Brock uses her creativity and passion to come up with fun recipes...