It's been quite a year for produce from the garden. I grew potatoes for the first time and was successful with both heirloom Bodega Red ...

Hard to believe that we are a week into December. Seems like Halloween was just yesterday and then, Whoosh!, here we are less than three wee...

Over the years, especially since the pandemic when we did major upgrades, we have had visitors now and then who stay in the farmhouse. With ...

Sweetie and I were blessed this evening with a visit from our middle grandson and his sweetie as they made their way back home after spendin...

 For those of you who have been dear readers for a while, here is another post where I show just how flawed I am. If you are new here that m...

 Sweetie loves to eat mushrooms. He often chooses menu items with mushrooms when we eat out and he loves it when I add mushrooms to what I...

  For me Thanksgiving is all about being grateful and, of course, the turkey, but for the rest of my family I think it might be all about th...

As the days have been getting shorter the tomatoes still left on the vine have been ripening increasingly slowly. There are still a lot of g...

Either way, its a delicious and spectacular looking yeasted sweet bread that is far easier to make than it looks. Some people call it a pull...

Reading can be inspiring. I recently finished reading The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama and I was inspired to bake Chinese Almond C...

A number of years ago I baked a recipe for Blondies with lots of yummy stir-ins. Over the years I made variations on that recipe and named t...