"It is never too late to be what you might have been."    - George Eliot A few years ago I read about a challenge that sounde...

I was looking back at all the posts I've done in November and discovered that I never did share the recipe with you for the dinner r...

Had some fun this afternoon with my sweet daughter. We got in touch with our crafty inner kid and made ornaments at a local pottery and f...

Something like 60 years ago - our family Thanksgiving table. To everyone who reads this - God bless you, every one.

Still looking for a showstopper dessert for Thanksgiving (or any fall meal, really)? Southern Living has a gorgeous, delicious pumpkin pi...

As a theory, I support the idea of locavorism...eating things grown or produced nearby to where you live. Since I am lucky and live where...

We had the leftovers of the seafood chowder last night. At first I was going to make some biscuits to go with the soup but couldn't f...

The recent rains knocked quite a few of the leaves off our trees. Today's walk along the Laguna de Santa Rosa showed that the waters ...

Should have posted early in the day when the computer was working, but for a while I've been posting in the evening. Bad idea. By eve...

When we are struggling with terrible events like the loss of someone dear to us it is pretty hard to see any redeeming value to it. I gue...

A few years ago I baked cakes with a wonderful group of bakers called the Cake Slice Bakers. Life got busy, so I dropped out after a whil...

Still on the subject of cooler weather and what that means in the kitchen, it is also fun now to bake bread. It did get cool enough in th...

With chilly weather finally here, the time has come for slow cooked dishes and stir fry dishes and casseroles. We still have meals from t...

Took a walk today with Pi dog in Sebastopol near the Laguna. They have a nice park with baseball diamonds and kids play equipment and a ...

Our gracious kitchen of the month for the Bread Baking Babes is Aparna from My Diverse Kitchen . This month she asked us to make "ba...

I used the same crust for the coconut cream pie as I used for the pecan pie (Martha Stewart's food processor recipe) , but I baked th...

The first pie is the classic Pecan Pie, made with dark cane sugar syrup, eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla and pecans. It is a translucent cus...

Here in the States the normal day to celebrate Thanksgiving is the last Thursday of the month. We will still be doing that, but for my fa...