The Bread Baking Babes group has been baking for so many years now that it is something of a challenge just to find breads we haven't ba...

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

I've baked Maida Heatter's version of the Queen Mother Cake a number of times and it is always a hit.  After hearing a request ...

Don't like hot days, but nearing September we often get a heat spell like the one we are experiencing now. Don't like sorting thi...

The last six or seven months have been some of the worst of my life as far as health goes. UTIs, the flu, surgery on my eyes, amoebic dys...

At first there is something a bit forbidding about a bowl of black rice salad. It is so dark and mysterious looking and if you are not ...

Every year at Christmas time one of the gifts we look forward to are the cherries from Michigan. One of my sisters lives near Traverse Ci...

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...

We are in that season where much of the fruit available in the markets are imported, except for apples and pears. Pears are often not ri...

When my Mom was a child the family would gather at one of the aunt's homes and the dessert highlight at Christmas was plum pudding wit...

I found a wonderful bread book, The Festive Bread Book by Kathy Cutler, in a secnodhand book shop and immediately fell in love. There are ...

Doesn't that sound special...a Guest Blog Event? NoHandle, who has blogged here before in a wonderful way is pretty special to me and h...

We are still looking for interesting ways to eat our veggies...and use up some of the ubiquitous veggie of summer...zucchini! As I mentione...