After our recent days of Indian Summer - three days in a row of temperatures in the mid to upper 90s!...we dropped 30 degrees day before ye...

You would think that since it is October that the strawberries would not be local, but you would be wrong. Our highway farm stand plants dif...

 It must be the shorter days, but I'm starting to think about meals that are heartier. A few days ago I made my favorite Pasta Sauce, wh...

When I was growing up back in Virginia, summer was tomato season, usually starting around July. Here in Northern California tomatoes are usu...

Over the Labor Day Weekend Sweetie and I visited our daughter, her fiancee, and his son in Redmond, WA. We had never been to their new renta...

This is an absolutely wonderful way to cook fish with a deeply flavored Mediterranean vibe. This is based on a recipe by Ellie Krieger that ...

Sweetie can never have enough pie. I was lucky and found some ripe white peaches in one of our local markets, so I bought enough to make a p...

  The garden is going well, at least partly because of all the rain we had over many months this spring and early summer. The two Black Krim...

Starting something new is always a little scary...exciting, but scary. That holds true for bread baking, too. It's double if the bread i...

We've been lucky this year. A number of the mornings have been foggy, so getting out early and picking blackberries has worked and saved...

Maybe it's just my perception, but I often think of pecans, brown sugar and bourbon as being key components to turn a dessert in the dir...

 Although charcutier boards have been a thing for a while now, I haven't really tried to master one before last week. Still, I always th...

It's that time of year...the zucchini are producing like mad. You may have a neighbor who, in desperation, delivers extra zucchini aroun...

 If you think that pancakes are just for breakfast, have I got a surprise for you. This Dutch Baby, a kind of pancake you bake in the oven, ...