It's always nice when someone else cooks. It's a treat to sit down at the table and taste something where your hand and your tastebu...

Barbered Santa cookies are Santa's Whiskers without the coconut edging. These are buttery, tender and sweet with the taste and color of...

Intense smooth dark chocolate combined with aromatic cognac and chewy bits of prunes. Time for SHF#25 and the theme is truffles…the chocolat...

Second Act, First Scene: We return to the celebration of Thanksgiving, but this time it is on the actual Turkey Day. We are joined by friend...

As I mentioned a few days ago, my daughter came home from Seattle for a long weekend. Since she had to go back today, we all agreed to celeb...

My Sweetie brought home a really big bag of barley from the health food store. These cute nubbins were a lovely tan color and promised to be...

With Thanksgiving less than a week away it’s surely time to connect with my inner elf. I love the holidays and for many years baked dozens a...

Almost missed the deadline. Can't believe it. I've been hunting through lots of old cookbooks to find a great fall dish for this cha...

Joining the Blog Party # 16 at Dispensing Happiness (thank you Stephanie), the challenge wasn’t really how to turn take out into party foo...

At a local farm stand I pass on the way to work the apples were fresh off the tree and it was self-service, too. These wi...

Sundays are a great day for coffee. For a number of years we have joined some neighbors at our local cafe' on Sunday mornings for breakf...

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Cleared the old squash plants out of the garden on Tuesday just before the rains came on Tuesday night. Harvested the las...

Finally sent around the URL for this blog to friends and family and got back a really cute photo from Cousins Tom and Nora of Florida of a G...

We had a late (for us) spring here in northern Sonoma County due to late rains and chill. As a result the squash seedlings were planted la...

Even though today was pretty warm, and I'd been slapping gray paint on the raw wood under the eaves of the new roof on the storage build...

After about a month of visiting a bunch of great food blogs, I decided to join the fun. Food is one of my earliest enthusiasms. Baking was h...