In a few days Sweetie and I will hop a plane for the East Coast for a week or so. Time to visit family and celebrate a birthday or two, eat...

Last weekend our daughter came home for a visit. One of my favorite times is having tea with her. Luckily the weather was lovely, so we had...

The darling Inne of Vanille and Chocolat in London has tagged me for a meme...and I, too, wonder how you pronounce that...and this time I ...

Mere minutes after I brought in the walnuts that had been drying on the table on the back deck...a whole basket of them...large drops of th...

My dear friend Peabody is going to be annoyed with me. Another post about tomatoes. If she ate these tarts she would end up in the hospital...

Which of us doesn't need a second chance? The first time we messed up somehow...spaced out or were immature or too tired or a hundred o...

Autumn is my favorite time of year, hands down, and it has been for as long as I can remember. I didn’t even mind that it meant the beginni...

September has brought to our part of California, as it often does, days of intense heat. The fog that often cools the air, at least at nigh...

In the Garden of Eden all was well until Eve was tempted by the snake and Adam and Eve bit into that apple. Now Adam could have resisted, i...

Many, many weeks ago Lis of La Mia Cucina sweetly awarded me the Schmooze Award, for which I am grateful. This award was created by Mike o...

It must be August, it’s so hot. No, wait, it’s September and still hot for northern California. Well, can’t argue with Momma Nature, so din...

As the blogroll of the Daring Bakers (those intrepid denizens of the kitchen enamored of ovens, butter, sugar, yeast and flour) grows large...

Another Daring Baker challenge my friends...a tart. Veron and Patricia have given us a most yummy challenge in the form of a Milk Chocola...