In search of recipes for homemade ice cream to fight the heat
Odell Waddell wrote from his East Brainerd back porch. "Here it is summertime already. I am getting hungry for some homemade ice cream."

Odell Waddell wrote from his East Brainerd back porch. "Here it is summertime already. I am getting hungry for some homemade ice cream."

Welcome to our weekly column, a mini-cookbook of trusted sources. And our trusted sources do have their trustworthy sources.

Good morning, reader. Your first challenge is an ongoing request to add to the Fare Exchange collection of spring and summer salads, "not all lettuce-based, please."

Settle in this morning, good readers, to a conversation with recipes as the frosting on the column-wide cake.

It is a pleasure to open up the screen on which to write to you and to receive what you have written and pass it on.

It's Cinco de Mayo, and why not celebrate?

Welcome to the end of April, kitchen companions. (Fun fact: The root of companion is literally "with bread.")

Welcome, well-read cooks and diners.

Today's column begins with a request for spring salad recipes. Send us your very favorite ones, the anonymous reader requested. "They can be simple or fancy. I am ready to try something new."

Welcome to April, with its showers, occasional shivers and promising sunshine. And here come the questions.
