Linda Titus Landis - Good Things: Simple cooking and happy tales

Linda Titus Landis - Good Things: Simple cooking and happy tales Just a place to highlight small comforts and joyful thoughts.

From recipes for home cooking to short tales about a big family during a simpler time, I hope you leave with a warm heart and a little smile after you stop by!

Beekeepers have a love/hate relationship with this Snow on the Prairie. It blooms in the late summer and early fall, pro...
08/22/2026

Beekeepers have a love/hate relationship with this Snow on the Prairie. It blooms in the late summer and early fall, providing pollen and nectar to our hives. The resulting stored honey has a very spicy burney tingle to the tongue and throat that many beekeeper despise (hate). They pull honey immediately before this bloom cycle so as not to “contaminate” their harvest with this characteristic. It appears during dearth when almost every other forage source is dry and dead; the bees desperately need this and it is so abundant that it serves to provide great stores going into winter (love). I’m in the love/love category; one of the few that doesn’t mind harvesting this as I know enough people who like “hot honey“ which is all the rage in culinary circles these days. Not only do I love Snow on the Prairie for the bees and the honey and the giving .. but I love it for my home. I bring it in by the bundles. Its cool white and pale green are so comforting to the eye and the tiny white blossoms are lovely to behold in the dead heat of 100°+ days.  Gazing on a field of it as you drive by is nothing short of gorgeous, and clearly from where the name is derived. This is just one more Good Thing that I’m so thankful for down on the farm. It just makes me happy! 🥰

07/05/2026

Do y’all remember a good old 1970s poke cake? These are so cool and moist and wonderful in the heat of summer. I made one for the Fourth of July, but you can do any color, any time. Top with berries or peaches, or be a purist and just leave the whipped cream on top like me. A simple and fun and oh so yum Good Thing!

The Lord gifted me with pretty close to red white and blue this weekend. This is as close as I got to fireworks down at...
07/05/2026

The Lord gifted me with pretty close to red white and blue this weekend. This is as close as I got to fireworks down at the farm. I did try to make it look like a little explosion of color for the 4th! What do you think? 🥰 P.S. Those beautiful purple blue trumpet flowers are blue bells…after which our own wonderful Texas ice cream was named!

04/19/2026

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never really had an opportunity to look inside my own heart except those times when I am when examining my behavior, my selfish inclinations, and more than a few times, my own broken heart. Recently I find myself going through some health evaluations and tests, and this past week following yet another, I was scanned and released to get dressed. The tech left the room with my beating heart on the screen, and I must tell you, standing there in a hospital gown watching it for a few moments was profoundly moving. While I’m not unfamiliar with the mechanical workings and the imagery, to see your own organs functioning in real time is a mesmerizing, tear evoking experience.

I did the math. It seems so very miraculous that at my age – 70 years and six-ish months - this fist sized mechanism constructed from two cells contributed by my parents along with some magic “dust of the Earth” has beat more than 2.89 billion times. That’s BILLION guys. From the moments of my microscopic creation to mere pounds of a bawling baby … my infancy, childhood and teenage angst. Through my sassy teenage years and my stubborn selfish young adulthood. During strains of pregnancies, childbirth, marriage, and parenting .. through gut-busting laughter and gut-wrenching sadness, it has sustained my very existence. Whether I gave it a thought or not, the Unseen has kept this rhythm tuned and orchestrated through my sleeping and waking for some 25,747 days now. It is impossible to express my gratefulness with words. The feelings well up in this fleshly woman and near explode.

After I dressed I felt had to capture a few seconds of this fleshly, thumping pump that differentiates an infinitely fine line between my life and death. I want to see it regularly and and remember to appreciate all the things that have been designed to work perfectly in order for me to even exist. I know there is a countdown remaining … whether that be millions or just a handful, I mean to be grateful to The One who numbers every beat.

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