Hello! I'm Cheryl, the mom of the two badass cooks who I am sure you have met here at The Hotel Leela. My husband Dave and I have the pleasure of sharing our lives with two Brittanys named Chase and Ziggy. They pretty much rule our lives. The four of us love the outdoors.
Documenting my family experiences with photos and journals has been a hobby for many years. I enjoy canning, hunting, fishing, foraging. I'm also content sitting in front of a campfire or on my porch swing enjoying nature or reading a book, which happens more often nowadays!
Someday, I'm gonna teach Leela Storm to hunt birds!
Don't forget to check out The AttaGrill Patio and Quavid's Kitchen!
Harvest Time in Northwestern Pennsylvania
As Summer draws to a close, so do all the fresh goodies that have been available to us for the last few months. Dave and I have always had gardens…
It's Canning Season!
It's September already and the summer is winding down. We dug up our own potatoes for storage and then went and picked up 25 pounds from our Amish farm to…
Summertime Sauerkraut
Hope you all had a great 4th of July weekend. We stayed home and cooked some pork on our Barrel House Cooker along with the usual picnic sidekicks... My famous…
Foraging Morel Mushrooms
My first ever morel find was purely by accident. I was never interested in searching for something that had a poisonous look-a-like. It was early May when I was taking…
Wild Leek & Walnut Pesto
Springtime in Pennsylvania is a wonderful time of the year to get out and enjoy what nature has to offer. The birds are making their springtime debut and the wildflowers…
Trout Fishing in Northwestern PA
April means the start of trout fishing in Northwestern Pennsylvania. It's one of the many reasons we chose to live in this area. An abundance of streams are within a…