I've been making this soup when people are sick with a cold or the flu for so long that I can't remember when I started. Chicken ri...

The persimmons are orange lanterns on the tree, but the leaves have not changed color and the fruits are still hard, so not yet ready to ha...

A favorite destination on Date Night is Borders Books. Recently Sweetie and I sat in a couple of their comfortable chairs and browsed our w...

The green salad is a boon for keeping the calories at bay and adding some nutrition to the meal at the same time. I tend to use mesclun, a ...

Today was beautiful with sunny skies, mild temperatures, and all the colors of fall spread out in the vineyards that are ever present in my...

One of my co-workers is half a hundred, so I made half a cake to help her celebrate. Since Sweetie and I had to make sure that it wasn'...

Hope that's a word. Crazy busy but wanted to post this photo from a recent cake baking session (no, not Bostini cakes). Recipe will be i...

Yes, the daring Bakers are at it again...guess what we are making! So what do you call this cute cake and custard and chocolate sauce combo...

Before the hills and valleys of Sonoma County were covered with wine grape vines, there were acres and acres of apples. The little town of ...

Hard to believe, but my first post on this blog was a year ago. To celebrate I'm asking that you leave a comment, even an anonymous comm...

Yesterday was the first nice day we have had in about a week. The sun came out, the trees were wearing the myriad shades of red and gold of ...

For some of us eating a few slices of turkey at Thanksgiving is enough turkey for the whole year, thank you very much. For others turkey is...

It's so easy, sometimes, to imagine that another person's situation is better than ours. When I was in my early twenties and barely...

Sweet Autumn! So much to do but lots of it fun stuff. Harvested a huge basket of English walnuts before the rains came. Still picking the l...

Once the project was done and the party over, there was more fun to be had. First Sweetie and I drove through the rolling Virginia countrysi...