We are enjoying the time with Raine and he seems to be enjoying the conversations, being on our 'farm' and the cooking and baking I...

 I love peaches! There is something about the juicy, tangy fruit and just says 'summer' to me. Right now we are getting some lovely ...

Being away from my kitchen on Mother's Day seemed strange, but fortunately my daughter's family was fine with me making a super size...

Sometimes you just need one serving. One day in the last few weeks...I should know when but things have been busy, with very little baking a...

We have been having chilly mornings with frost on the grass some days, so I decided to make waffles. I've been feeding the sourdough sta...

Over the summer I played with a Dutch Baby recipe that you bake in a 9 x 13-inch pan and loved it so much that I made it multiple times. Du...

Summer certainly brings lots of kinds of fruit. Right now we have ripe peaches, luscious dark cherries, olallieberries right off the vine...

Recently our local newspaper, the Press Democrat, has a delicious sounding recipe in the Food Section. It was for a Crostata with jam. A ...

What would you make if you had some really nice fresh apricots, ripe and fragrant and about the size of a tennis ball? How about ripe, sw...

One of my treasured recipes is for Aunt May's Irish Soda Bread. It's in my book (Classic Comfort Food) and I throw it together fo...

A good, well-made plain pancake is a delight. Gilding the lily with blueberries is common, but then adding cooked bacon and chopped peca...

Once upon a time, a long time ago, I used to have a muffin company. I baked wholesale muffins for a couple of coffee shops, mostly to ke...

There is a recipe on this post, but it is waaay down there. First there is the ABC Award (Awesome Blog Content) from Katie of Apple and S...

Summertime may bring heat and weeds in the garden and mosquitoes at dusk when we are trying to finish dinner, but it also brings a wonderl...

Heat wave, we're havin' a heat wave! But not as hot as some areas where family live, so I'm thankful for the late afternoon or ...

Although strawberries continue to be a daily fruit that brings so much enjoyment, let's hear it for blueberries, just now finding their...