Here we are at the end of September. The tomatoes are ripening in multiples a day. I only planted two plants this year. The Black Krim has p...

Years and years ago when our son was pre-kindergarten age, he and his friends would roam the hill having fun in simple ways. We had an old t...

You read the title right...this bread is designed to look like rolls of yarn...thick yarn in my case. It's a fun bake brought to us by o...

One of the cooler weather dishes that I really enjoyed growing up was stuffed cabbage rolls which are cooking in a tomato sauce. Not sure if...

I'm in the process of re-doing my family cookbook. It's fun! One of the things I did early on in the renovation was to change the fo...

It's fun to know that you can have a muffin and a flower with the same name...morning glory. At this time of year, the morning glories i...

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...