

Time for salads
Mohammed Moosa, Wikimedia Commons Put together an antipasto salad sometime soon and add your favorite ingredients to customize it. Salads...
Cathie Campbell


Getting into a pickle
Cat Campbell/For The Madera Tribune Pickled eggs get their color from beets, sliced or whole. The morning of writing this, I had just...
Cathie Campbell
Hope and the Doors of Hope
It is a sad thing to hear when a non-profit organization that does so much good has closed. On March 28, The Doors of Hope board met and...
Nancy Simpson


Madera Ranchos veterans coffee hour
For The Madera Tribune Military veterans from various branches gather for a weekly meeting in Madera Ranchos. The group gathers every...
For The Madera Tribune
Vinegar versus honey
There is an expression that most of us know that goes something like this. “You can get more bees with honey than you can with vinegar.”...
Nancy Simpson


Got leftover ham?
Kobako, Wikimedia Commons If you have leftover ham to deal with, try making some ham and cheese calzones. A lot of folks make a tradition...
Cathie Campbell
Heading into Easter’s homestretch
The Lenten season, also known as Lent, begins the day after Mardi Gras, on Ash Wednesday. This year Ash Wednesday was on February 22, but...
Nancy Simpson
Opinion: As spring approaches, cat hair falls
First published in The Madera Tribune, on Saturday March 3, 2013. I know spring is here because the cat is starting to shed, and I am...
Charles Doud