On Sunday, October 22, 2006 I wrote the first post for this blog. Blogs were still pretty new ways to communicate with a larger community...

We are almost at the end of baking from World Class Cakes by Roger Pizey. This month I chose the Chocolate Kugelhopf from our choices, ...

This has been a long, strange week here in Northern California. A week ago, very early in the morning, a neighbor phoned and woke me up a...

Strange how different things can be in less than a week. On Saturday evening a week ago I stirred together a batter for the next morning....

The photo above is from Monday morning from our back upper deck...and the 'clouds' are not that, nor fog, but are smoke! Sunday...

Waking up to a temperature of 41 degrees F is such a nice change. I love the cooler weather of fall, even if the daytime temperatures hav...

Sometimes it's a pain having a sourdough starter...trying to remember to feed it within a certain window of time means I can't ha...