My Mom made the best apple pies. You might be able to say the same, but I've never tasted your Mom's, so I still believe that my Mom...

 The Gravenstein apples are ripe! We have a couple of trees and so I made some Gravenstein apple sauce with some of the apples. They are so ...

A number of years ago I published a cookbook of family favorite recipes, mostly from midcentury, as a way to remember my Dad and to keep the...

Sometimes days can be bittersweet. August 12this one of them. Almost 40 years ago Sweetie and I became the parents of a good sized baby boy....

 Although my tomatoes are still about a week away from being ripe, this is really the time of year to enjoy fresh tomatoes in the Northern H...

 It's taken me longer than I had hoped, but today I made some plum jam using the small (an inch to an inch and a half in size) fresh rip...

This is going to be a post with no cooking or baking, just some happenings and photos. Sweetie's friends who are, as he is, former Peace...

Being allergic to dairy is old hat by now and I have figured out ways to still enjoy cooking and baking...and eating without cream, butter, ...

A very kind neighbor dropped off at least three pints of wonderful, tart, ripe, mini plums the other day. We only got a few of our own plums...

Another year has passed without our loved and loving son in it. It's been over twenty years. A lot has gone on in those years and it...

 The Bread Baking Babes have been baking bread for quite a while now and since we don't want to repeat ourselves, it has become almost a...

July is not only lily season, it's also blueberry season here in Northern California.  When we lived in Berkeley we used to come up in J...