My name is Diane and I am a wife, mother of two and grandmother of three wonderful grandchildren.
I have been cooking my entire life. Cooking and teaching others how to cook is my passion! I want to show you how easy it is to prepare and cook delicious food.
I also love gadgets, small appliances and cast iron.
I will show you how to make things you never even thought of making with easy step by step directions.
Thank you so much for visiting my new site. I won’t disappoint you! I have some easy, delicious and recipes you never thought of making that I will be posting. If you click the follow button on the right side of the page it will make it easier to see my blogs. Feel free to comment any time!
Boy oh boy!!! I just figured it out!!! It’s you!!! Lol!! Always love you recipes on the ” Porch”!!! I love that you have this awesome blog with the delicious recipes you make!! Congratulations!! Much well deserved success!! I’m so excited for you!!! Everyone that visits here is in for a rel treat!!xo
You’re so sweet Tina! Yes it is me…lol Thank you so much! I just love blogging and sharing my recipes! I’m glad you like my site. It’s a brand new site and expanding daily. Thanks for checking it out!
You’re welcome! I enjoyed your blog on Costa Rica. Many years ago my son was in high school and we invited an exchange student from Coast Rica to stay with us for two weeks.
I’m sure they were very lucky to stay with you 🙂 what state are you in? if anything other than a warm state, they must’ve been cold – did you know its same temp year round (80’s-90s) & sunrise & sunset always same year round (5:30am/5:30pm)?
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Ohio but it was in the summer months, warm. His Mom came to Ohio too and stayed somewhere else, they didn’t allow them to stay together. I never knew parents went.
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interesting – maybe she was worried you’d put him into one of your recipes? haha
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She actually stayed over an hour away from us, I thought that was strange. We really enjoyed having him here with us.
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Hey!! Thanks for stopping by “It Is What It Is” … and the follow. Hope you enjoy your
visits there!! Hugs … Peace!!’ Wishing you a wonderful Mother’s Day …. hugs!! __/l\__
Thank you Diane 🙂 Your recipes all sound so delicious !
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Wow, you love cooking. I love science and everyone has a thing that they love. You have about 50 follows, I have about 30. I also love eating so I’m going to click that follow button. Thank you so much for clicking my follow button. Whipped coconut oil will be coming on my blog very quickly. So stick around with me (if you have time…).
Awesome Dan! I will be watching for the coconut oil! I am also a lover of science! I find it so fascinating. I look forward to reading more of your blog!
Thank you for visiting and following my blog, SusansFlowers. I cook from scratch, also & am seeing so many good ideas in your recipes. You found another convert!
I appreciate how you didn’t mince words in the knife review! For some reason, my computer won’t let me comment on that post right now, so here I am, thanking you for the follow. Your instructions are very clearly written! I’ll take a look at a few recipes now!
You are 100% right! I find even restaurant food is not as good as home cooking. I can cook for a week for the same price some of these restaurants charge for a meal for two!
Thanks for being my follower, Diane. I can’t cook, but I can hold your interest with the mental illness stuff. Oh, to be fair, I should clean my dirty dishes and try to learn. My kitchen is a disaster, and so am I. But don’t be a codependent, please. And don’t give advice. I’m just grateful to have another follower. Thank you and have a great week. I need to check my stats again. Blogging is really cool. I never had so many friends. It’s better than Facebook. Anyway, take care. Rob
It’s funny, I’m always hearing music. Right now it’s Burt Bacharach, which I recall from age two. “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again.” He was a master, a maestro. “Promises, Promises” makes me cry. When I hear the rap nonsense on the tubes today, I think, “Huh?” I’m a Herb Alpert lover — but also, Rush and Yes. Anything that is sound and not noise. There’s a lot of good music — and poetry — available. We just have to choose the good. Just this afternoon, my orders from Library of America arrived: Poe and Carlos Williams. The books are beautiful and portable. Do you like music and literature? As a Capricorn, I’m fated to them. Poe really cared deeply about his poetry. He stayed sober to write it. The prose fictions were done for money. He did those drunk, hence the compromise in quality. Imagine his surprise when “The Raven” was an overnight success! It might have been too much for him. He was found delirious at a polling booth and died of some neurological thing, doubtless alcohol-related. Poor guy was only 40yo! Yet I’m surprised I’ve lived to be 50. Any day could be my last, and turning 50 alerted me to this fact… If you wanna teach me to cook, I am all ears. I’m on food stamps, with a lot of credit right now. I just need to clean up my kitchen first, and fix my clogged sink. It’ll take a lot of work, and a little money not spent on beer. Thanks for reading me today. Where do you hail from? I live in Eugene, Oregon, USA. Been in Eugene since 1971. My dad bought this house for 18 grand. Can you believe it? BTW, I have a BA in English. Just luck… and hard work. I enjoyed school so much that I didn’t realize what I was achieving. I am a Kappan, and I still give PBK money when I can. I plan to leave my house to Alpha of Oregon before I die… You have a nice face, so I guess that’s why I’m unburdening myself to you here. Please read from my blog. I use profanities here and there, but they mostly pepper my speech. I’d better go now. Nice meeting you, Diane, and hope to hear from you soon. Please comment, and be liberal about it if you have time. I am your friend. Sincerely, Rob Graden
Hi Rob! I grew up with music in my life as my mother has taught piano my entire life and she still does. I have a piano in my house but haven’t played for years. I post recipes that don’t require a lot of expensive ingredients and are simple to make. Tomorrows recipe is French Toast. Inexpensive, delicious and filling. You definitely could make that. Have a great day!
It’s not that I “like” music so much as that I’m addicted to it. I can listen to a piece and it will float back to me in a day or so. It is psychotic, but there’s no controlling it. I dunno what to do but to drown it out with beer. Maybe that’s an inappropriate response. Maybe the music is trying to help me? I only know it comes from my soul, be it good or bad or something in-between. Cognitive Therapy is great, for it claims that there is no black or white, but only shades of gray. It’s like a Jane Austen novel, where you have Pride and Prejudice, but in the end, they marry and resolve themselves. Fitzwilliam Darcy loosens up after marriage and becomes more human, more friendly. I love Jane Austen! DH Lawrence had profound respect for her, too. She was a rebel while romanticism was going on all around her. She wrote in her parlor and spirited it away when somebody entered. All very hush-hush. It was Virginia Woolf who wrote about Austen in this way. I love Mrs Dalloway, too. Virginia Stephen was a very beautiful woman and person. Listen, I am probably the most fair-minded guy you’ll ever meet. I love women in every way. There exist some guys I really like, too. It’s all about fairness. Some people don’t get this, and I wanna know why. But the truth will not “out” overnight. All I can do is keep blogging, at least one post per day. If I use an expletive or two, I will forgive myself. Diane, please read of my blog. It’s pretty good, if I do say so myself. Have a good night this Tuesday night. Take good care. Your Rob
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Have you ever thought about writing a book? You should! You are very intriguing to talk to. Have a great day!
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I could probably write a good nonfiction book about my illness. Just takes more effort. Thanks for your feedback. That’s what I live for these days. Your Robert
Thanks for liking my reply. It’s often hard to know what to say. I am also an alcoholic. Hope you still like me. Even now I am machinating my next beer run. I know it’s not good for me, yet I keep choosing it. I have edema in my ankles, yet I choose to drink. Talking with my brother doesn’t help, as he’s another alcoholic. I’d rather not hear from him, poor guy. He has peripheral neuropathy from having drunk for so many years. I don’t want to follow in his footsteps. I am only 50yo, and probably have another 20 yrs coming. We’ll see, I guess. Take care, Diane. and thanks for picking up on my blog. It’s a labor of love for me. My sister wouldn’t understand this. Oh, well. She has her own agenda that makes no sense. It isn’t my fault. I can only take care of myself. Hope this post finds you well. Your Robert
Thanks for visiting my blog and for following me. I’ve just been checking out some of your receipes. My, those photographs are amazing, I was salivating just looking at them!
I may post some but not specifically for that reason. I am trying to keep my blog primarily as easy to make and/or quick recipes for those new and seasoned but rushed cooks. If you check through my categories I’m sure you will find some. If there is an ingredient you can’t have, leave it out or substitute what you would like in it’s place. I hope this helps! I have never been on an LCHF diet or I could be more help!
Check out my Slow Cooker Chicken with Crispy Skin recipe I posted today! If you can’t have the mixes, Just use seasonings of your choice with butter. Cook the same way including crisping up the chicken. Love your blog!
Thank you for recently visiting and following my blog site. I always cooking too, but since having more vision trouble anymore I have trouble reading recipes, and use very strong reading lens and magnifying glass to do that. 🙂 So, it isn’t as much fun as it once was and when I did more of it trying new recipes, baking and making homemade breads, which once in a while I still enjoy. But, when it come to just writing in general; poetry, fiction, essays and inspirational pieces I want to keep doing that as it is my passion. That is when I make sure I have my strongest pair of reading glasses on to work on my writing projects, and posting them. I have looked over your site and your recipes, and they look delicious, wonderful and some easy to try, so will look back and refer to them when I want to try some. Thank you for sharing them, and best wishes on your cooking adventures, and sharing them with us all. God bless.
Hello and welcome to my blog. Thanks for hitting the follow on pensitivity101.My recipes and efforts are very much hit and run (for the custard for surprise desserts when the cakes don’t work out!)
Thanks for your ‘Follow’!!!! It has gotten me to your Blog and I’m about to check it out. First! I’m going to get something to eat, I know I’m going to be awful hungary if I don’t 🙂
Thankyou for the follow. Please be aware though, that my Survival Saturday posts will only be once, twice at most, a month. The rest of the time I’m a pretty heavy SFF book reviewer. Just so you don’t think you’re getting into a cooking blog 🙂
I’ve had a lovely morning in your kitchen. Our kitchens are the center and heart of the home and I enjoy spending time in the kitchens of those who love cooking. Bon Appetit Virginia
You have some yummy stuff on this blog! I could do with some cooking inspiration, as I am rubbish at it. I’ll be coming back for more tips. Thank you so much for following me and the storyhounds! 🙂
I have know your mom for grade school ! I love to cook and enjoy new and some older recipes ! I am looking forward to seeing what you are cooking
Thank you so much for visiting my new site. I won’t disappoint you! I have some easy, delicious and recipes you never thought of making that I will be posting. If you click the follow button on the right side of the page it will make it easier to see my blogs. Feel free to comment any time!
Thank you for sharing your site with us on “the Porch”, Diane. So excited for you! Congratulations!
Thank you Jo and welcome!
Boy oh boy!!! I just figured it out!!! It’s you!!! Lol!! Always love you recipes on the ” Porch”!!! I love that you have this awesome blog with the delicious recipes you make!! Congratulations!! Much well deserved success!! I’m so excited for you!!! Everyone that visits here is in for a rel treat!!xo
You’re so sweet Tina! Yes it is me…lol Thank you so much! I just love blogging and sharing my recipes! I’m glad you like my site. It’s a brand new site and expanding daily. Thanks for checking it out!
so glad you visited my blog – especially as it’s led me to your lovely site 🙂
You’re welcome! I enjoyed your blog on Costa Rica. Many years ago my son was in high school and we invited an exchange student from Coast Rica to stay with us for two weeks.
I’m sure they were very lucky to stay with you 🙂 what state are you in? if anything other than a warm state, they must’ve been cold – did you know its same temp year round (80’s-90s) & sunrise & sunset always same year round (5:30am/5:30pm)?
Ohio but it was in the summer months, warm. His Mom came to Ohio too and stayed somewhere else, they didn’t allow them to stay together. I never knew parents went.
interesting – maybe she was worried you’d put him into one of your recipes? haha
She actually stayed over an hour away from us, I thought that was strange. We really enjoyed having him here with us.
Hey!! Thanks for stopping by “It Is What It Is” … and the follow. Hope you enjoy your
visits there!! Hugs … Peace!!’ Wishing you a wonderful Mother’s Day …. hugs!! __/l\__
Thank you so much for the follow of my blog, Dianne. i noticed a couple of recipes here that I want to check out 🙂
Your blog is very interesting! Thanks for checking out mine too!
Thank you Diane 🙂 Your recipes all sound so delicious !
Thanks!
Wow, you love cooking. I love science and everyone has a thing that they love. You have about 50 follows, I have about 30. I also love eating so I’m going to click that follow button. Thank you so much for clicking my follow button. Whipped coconut oil will be coming on my blog very quickly. So stick around with me (if you have time…).
Awesome Dan! I will be watching for the coconut oil! I am also a lover of science! I find it so fascinating. I look forward to reading more of your blog!
Thank you. I’m still experimenting with the coconut oil.
Hi! Thanks a lot for joining Thoughts of SheryL!
Great blog! 🙂
Delicious looking recipes! Off to check some out… Emilyx
Thanks! I hope you see something you like!
I look forward to learning from you!
Thank you! I get so inspired sharing my recipes and cooking tips!
Thank you for visiting and following my blog, SusansFlowers. I cook from scratch, also & am seeing so many good ideas in your recipes. You found another convert!
Thanks Susan! I love cooking from scratch! Your photo’s are stunning!
Hi Diane! All looks soooo yummy! And thanks for the ‘follow’…
Thanks Donna! You’re welcome.
Thank you for following my blog!
You’re welcome from another Ohio cook!
thank you for following my blog!
You’re welcome! Your photo’s are so unique and beautiful!
thank you so very much!
Thank you for following my blog. I look forward to following yours. 🙂
I appreciate how you didn’t mince words in the knife review! For some reason, my computer won’t let me comment on that post right now, so here I am, thanking you for the follow. Your instructions are very clearly written! I’ll take a look at a few recipes now!
Thank you for your thought and checking out my recipes!
Thank you for following my blog. I look forward to reading yours.
Cooking is always better when it’s shared! Thank you for following my blog.
You’re welcome!
Your blog is very interesting.Thank you for following my blog.
Your desserts are amazing!!!!! Thank you!
The best way to save money is to cook from scratch. Fast food is gross compared to homemade. Thanks for following my blog.
You are 100% right! I find even restaurant food is not as good as home cooking. I can cook for a week for the same price some of these restaurants charge for a meal for two!
Thanks so much for following Oh, the Places We See. It’s great to have super cook traveling alongside of us! Best wishes in all you do.
Thank you, you too!
WOW. Thank you so much for the follow….and you definitely got me at cornbread! I look forward to seeing more recipes.
Awe……you’re welcome!
Diane, you’re more than welcome to cook for us at the Pig’s Arms any time you would like ! Regards, Emmjay (for Therese Trouserzoff)
Awe you are so sweet! Thank You!
Thanks for being my follower, Diane. I can’t cook, but I can hold your interest with the mental illness stuff. Oh, to be fair, I should clean my dirty dishes and try to learn. My kitchen is a disaster, and so am I. But don’t be a codependent, please. And don’t give advice. I’m just grateful to have another follower. Thank you and have a great week. I need to check my stats again. Blogging is really cool. I never had so many friends. It’s better than Facebook. Anyway, take care. Rob
Hi Rob! Yes blogging is a blast!
It’s funny, I’m always hearing music. Right now it’s Burt Bacharach, which I recall from age two. “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again.” He was a master, a maestro. “Promises, Promises” makes me cry. When I hear the rap nonsense on the tubes today, I think, “Huh?” I’m a Herb Alpert lover — but also, Rush and Yes. Anything that is sound and not noise. There’s a lot of good music — and poetry — available. We just have to choose the good. Just this afternoon, my orders from Library of America arrived: Poe and Carlos Williams. The books are beautiful and portable. Do you like music and literature? As a Capricorn, I’m fated to them. Poe really cared deeply about his poetry. He stayed sober to write it. The prose fictions were done for money. He did those drunk, hence the compromise in quality. Imagine his surprise when “The Raven” was an overnight success! It might have been too much for him. He was found delirious at a polling booth and died of some neurological thing, doubtless alcohol-related. Poor guy was only 40yo! Yet I’m surprised I’ve lived to be 50. Any day could be my last, and turning 50 alerted me to this fact… If you wanna teach me to cook, I am all ears. I’m on food stamps, with a lot of credit right now. I just need to clean up my kitchen first, and fix my clogged sink. It’ll take a lot of work, and a little money not spent on beer. Thanks for reading me today. Where do you hail from? I live in Eugene, Oregon, USA. Been in Eugene since 1971. My dad bought this house for 18 grand. Can you believe it? BTW, I have a BA in English. Just luck… and hard work. I enjoyed school so much that I didn’t realize what I was achieving. I am a Kappan, and I still give PBK money when I can. I plan to leave my house to Alpha of Oregon before I die… You have a nice face, so I guess that’s why I’m unburdening myself to you here. Please read from my blog. I use profanities here and there, but they mostly pepper my speech. I’d better go now. Nice meeting you, Diane, and hope to hear from you soon. Please comment, and be liberal about it if you have time. I am your friend. Sincerely, Rob Graden
Hi Rob! I grew up with music in my life as my mother has taught piano my entire life and she still does. I have a piano in my house but haven’t played for years. I post recipes that don’t require a lot of expensive ingredients and are simple to make. Tomorrows recipe is French Toast. Inexpensive, delicious and filling. You definitely could make that. Have a great day!
It’s not that I “like” music so much as that I’m addicted to it. I can listen to a piece and it will float back to me in a day or so. It is psychotic, but there’s no controlling it. I dunno what to do but to drown it out with beer. Maybe that’s an inappropriate response. Maybe the music is trying to help me? I only know it comes from my soul, be it good or bad or something in-between. Cognitive Therapy is great, for it claims that there is no black or white, but only shades of gray. It’s like a Jane Austen novel, where you have Pride and Prejudice, but in the end, they marry and resolve themselves. Fitzwilliam Darcy loosens up after marriage and becomes more human, more friendly. I love Jane Austen! DH Lawrence had profound respect for her, too. She was a rebel while romanticism was going on all around her. She wrote in her parlor and spirited it away when somebody entered. All very hush-hush. It was Virginia Woolf who wrote about Austen in this way. I love Mrs Dalloway, too. Virginia Stephen was a very beautiful woman and person. Listen, I am probably the most fair-minded guy you’ll ever meet. I love women in every way. There exist some guys I really like, too. It’s all about fairness. Some people don’t get this, and I wanna know why. But the truth will not “out” overnight. All I can do is keep blogging, at least one post per day. If I use an expletive or two, I will forgive myself. Diane, please read of my blog. It’s pretty good, if I do say so myself. Have a good night this Tuesday night. Take good care. Your Rob
Have you ever thought about writing a book? You should! You are very intriguing to talk to. Have a great day!
I could probably write a good nonfiction book about my illness. Just takes more effort. Thanks for your feedback. That’s what I live for these days. Your Robert
Thanks for liking my reply. It’s often hard to know what to say. I am also an alcoholic. Hope you still like me. Even now I am machinating my next beer run. I know it’s not good for me, yet I keep choosing it. I have edema in my ankles, yet I choose to drink. Talking with my brother doesn’t help, as he’s another alcoholic. I’d rather not hear from him, poor guy. He has peripheral neuropathy from having drunk for so many years. I don’t want to follow in his footsteps. I am only 50yo, and probably have another 20 yrs coming. We’ll see, I guess. Take care, Diane. and thanks for picking up on my blog. It’s a labor of love for me. My sister wouldn’t understand this. Oh, well. She has her own agenda that makes no sense. It isn’t my fault. I can only take care of myself. Hope this post finds you well. Your Robert
Thanks for visiting my blog and for following me. I’ve just been checking out some of your receipes. My, those photographs are amazing, I was salivating just looking at them!
Awe thank you Maristravels!
I may post some but not specifically for that reason. I am trying to keep my blog primarily as easy to make and/or quick recipes for those new and seasoned but rushed cooks. If you check through my categories I’m sure you will find some. If there is an ingredient you can’t have, leave it out or substitute what you would like in it’s place. I hope this helps! I have never been on an LCHF diet or I could be more help!
Check out my Slow Cooker Chicken with Crispy Skin recipe I posted today! If you can’t have the mixes, Just use seasonings of your choice with butter. Cook the same way including crisping up the chicken. Love your blog!
Thank you AndreaVL! It is very good! Give it a whirl!
Thank you for recently visiting and following my blog site. I always cooking too, but since having more vision trouble anymore I have trouble reading recipes, and use very strong reading lens and magnifying glass to do that. 🙂 So, it isn’t as much fun as it once was and when I did more of it trying new recipes, baking and making homemade breads, which once in a while I still enjoy. But, when it come to just writing in general; poetry, fiction, essays and inspirational pieces I want to keep doing that as it is my passion. That is when I make sure I have my strongest pair of reading glasses on to work on my writing projects, and posting them. I have looked over your site and your recipes, and they look delicious, wonderful and some easy to try, so will look back and refer to them when I want to try some. Thank you for sharing them, and best wishes on your cooking adventures, and sharing them with us all. God bless.
Life takes us in different directions for whatever reason. I’m glad you found a passion that works for you! Thank you for your kind words!
Hello and welcome to my blog. Thanks for hitting the follow on pensitivity101.My recipes and efforts are very much hit and run (for the custard for surprise desserts when the cakes don’t work out!)
You’re welcome and we all have hit and run recipes. It’s the ones that work that make it worth staying!
Thanks for your ‘Follow’!!!! It has gotten me to your Blog and I’m about to check it out. First! I’m going to get something to eat, I know I’m going to be awful hungary if I don’t 🙂
HAHAHA Youre welcome! Go eat!
Thanks for following ZimmerBitch and introducing me to your blog. 🙂
Your welcome! You have beautiful pictures!
Thank you 🙂
Thank you for visiting and following my blog Diane, yours looks delicious, all the lovely recipes. Kind regards, Agnes
Congratulations, Diane!
I have nominated your blog for the Real Neat Blog Award.
More about this nomination is at
https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2017/09/02/real-neat-blog-award-congratulations-to-13-nominees/
Awe thank you!
Thank you for stopping by and joining my blog. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy sharing my recipes and travels with you. Welcome aboard.
Nadia
Maisontravers.wordpress.com
Thank you for following me! I look forward to reading more about you.
Hello Dianne, glad to meet you here. Thank you for the follow 🙂
You’re welcome! Love the 3 apples saying!
😊, yes even I liked that.
Dear Diane, thank you so much for following my blog.
You’re welcome! I look forward to seeing more of your beautiful photo’s and adventures!
Thanks so much for your kind words. I will do my best.
Thanks again!
Such gorgeous recipes! Thank-you very much for visiting my blog and for the follow.
You are very welcome! Thank you for such kind words!
Thank you, Diane for visiting and liking my blog. Hope I can one day taste one of your delicious dishes!
You’re welcome!
Hi, Diane. Thanks for visiting and following my blog. Looking forward to exploring your site.
You’re welcome I look forward to seeing all of yours as well!
Thankyou for the follow. Please be aware though, that my Survival Saturday posts will only be once, twice at most, a month. The rest of the time I’m a pretty heavy SFF book reviewer. Just so you don’t think you’re getting into a cooking blog 🙂
LOL that’s fine I just like reading the reviews. Hey, who knows maybe you will review a cookbook…hahahaha
I’ve had a lovely morning in your kitchen. Our kitchens are the center and heart of the home and I enjoy spending time in the kitchens of those who love cooking. Bon Appetit Virginia
Thank you belocchio! I just love this time of the year making all of our holiday favorites!
You have some yummy stuff on this blog! I could do with some cooking inspiration, as I am rubbish at it. I’ll be coming back for more tips. Thank you so much for following me and the storyhounds! 🙂
Thank you for you’re kind words! I enjoy your blog as well!
Thank you for the follow! I have returned the favor and look forward to seeing your posts.
DEspite my past problems I’m a foodie indeed,how can I not following you😉😋
Awe thank you!
Thanks for following my blog. I like many of your recipes and will follow you.