She woke with a start. It had been a horrible dream. The twins, her granddaughters who live on the other side of the country, were grown ...

We have been having a little heat, so the cherry tomatoes have been ripening up at a good clip. I've given three or four pints away a...

I get a bit emotional about tomatoes. First because I spend a lot of time and thought on them: I start them from seeds in the late days o...

  The days are truly getting shorter and school started in our neighborhood yesterday, so this month's Bread Baking Babes bread, N...

With foggy mornings and sunny afternoons being the norm, my cherry tomato plants are producing like crazy. Every day there are more dots ...

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...

Found this post (unposted) when I was going through drafts to delete unwanted ones. This pie was from Christmas 2012 and it was excellent!...

Now that I live in California I'm surrounded with some of the best Mexican food outside of Mexico, but when I was growing up on the E...

Around here we are awash in wine and wine-related things. There are wine auctions, wine road events, grape harvest news and more. One of ...

Everything is going so well with the entry project that I'm not really complaining, but, gee it takes a lot of time to do constructio...

Some days it is so wonderful to have something easy to serve for dinner. After a good portion of a day spent installing flashing and sidi...

I grew up to be a shy person, up until I went to college. No one would have called me assertive. It came as quite a revelation to me, whe...

It all started when a boy was stealing some CDs from a music store.   On the way out of the store a cop came by and arrested Cris for st...

Working hard on the project..and not much else. You should also see me pry old siding and nails off the side of the house...demo queen!

You probably know someone like her. She always thinks of others first. She has a huge heart, a love of family and community, makes sure t...