Mother’s Day is this weekend. And you are trying to find a gift that is perfect for Mom but you are having trouble figuring our what to get a women who buys what she needs and really doesn’t ever want anything else. I have solution that fits any size and works for any age, a family recipe cookbook that will highlight Mom’s recipes. Okay it will not be ready for this weekend but you can buy all the elements for your cookbook and show Mom the intention of creating this book in her honor. I think she may like it. It is worth a try….

Thanks JB Biersdorfer of the NY Times for your tip of the week today. Google has created a feature that caters to cooks. When you search dish or an ingredient, Google gives your first batch of results and then presents a recipe option in the list of categories in the column in the left side of the page. You can click the more button if you not like what you see. Here is the cool part—you can filter the results by cooking time, calories and ingredients. Google has more information at

www.goggle.com/landing/recipes. He mentions that other search engines have recipe help—Bing and Yahoo have recipe help with key word.

As Farmers Market open up in the next few weeks, depending on where you, most of the fruits and veggies were not grown in your area. In Minnesota our trees are just budding, lilacs will be out in 4 weeks so veggies found at these markets are not grown in an outside garden but a green house to be local. For my friends in the south this might not be the case but I stress asking where the fruits and vegetables were grown. We all want our Farmers Markets feature local fair most of the year and use local green houses early on to fill the gaps but not use those bought at the warehouses where the local grocery stores purchase theirs. There needs to be local feel and reward for those markets that feature local growers and it is up to use to enforce it with our dollars.

Quick mention, I will be gone next week and not be writing this blog. I hope all the Mothers have a great Mother’s Day and enjoy their families with love from the kitchen and a favorite recipe,