Wishing you, dear reader, a magnificent turkey day...and lots of turkey with all the trimmings. One of the trimmings is often cranberry sau...

This month our wonderful Kitchen of the Month, Karen of Karen's Kitchen Stories , treated us to a great recipe for beautiful rolls with ...

My last post was for a spicy, moist, delicious gingerbread that you can bake in smaller pans, which make it easy to share. As we start geari...

I love the idea of food as medicine. Since I personally found that more turmeric, ginger, cinnamon and garlic, among other anti-inflammatory...

2006 seems like a really, really long time ago. That was the October when I began posting on this blog. If you had asked me at the time, I...

When I realized that I still had poached quince in the fridge and that it needed to be used, I went to various cookbooks and then to the ind...

Do you ever see a new recipe that you just know you have to try, as soon as possible? I do more often than you might think. A short while ag...

  Now that it's fall, the menu changes around here. There is less grilled food and more meals that are comfort foods, like stews and bra...

 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...