• The Thistle Hill mob….

    ….well the follow-on generations….grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  We get together every Christmas Eve though it becomes harder and harder with significant others and their competing schedules.  This year four grandchildren were AWOL but it is still a fair-sized crowd to feed.  (Our children made for eight more but they were out of camera-range.)  

  • Thistle Hill food co-editors named….

    ….well not really, but sometimes I think it would be nice to have a Food Editor and, while I’d apply for the job, it would probably have to go to Tom Garnett of Boonesboro, Maryland.  And his wife, Brooke, would have to be the co-editor because she does the job of documenting his work. Not long ago we reported—with photos by Brooke—on Tom’s special pork chop recipe.  And after I bragged about my ham, Tom set out to do me one better for his family.  He did not share the food but Brooke shares the recipe here: I wanted to report back on our Thistle Hill ham. Tom did an…