I know that a lot of people rely on the internet for finding new recipes, which is fine, but I love cookbooks, so I'm always on the look...

A few days ago Sweetie cooked a pork shoulder low and slow in the BBQ grill, all wrapped up in heavy duty foil. He browns the shoulder on ea...

Don't actually need another pie recipe, but I finally found some ripe peaches at the market. Usually they are hard as rocks, which I don...

Typically frangipane is an almond cream of sorts that is used as a filling in pie and tarts...and it isn't chocolate. Almond is the usua...

It's going to be hot again next week, but for the last few days it's been in the upper 70s and on Monday night it rained! Fall is co...

Every year we wait for the harvest, especially the tomato harvest. I start the seeds indoors some years. Did that this February. I was optim...

I planted the cucumbers and string beans later than the veggie starts, but they are producing quite well now...well enough to pickle some of...

  When Sweetie had his birthday in March one of the unusual gifts was a seed potato for a Bodega Red potato, an heirloom variety that was gr...

On the 12th day of August in the early 1980s our son Max was born. We were lucky to have had a great many fun birthdays before he passed. Ye...

We are enjoying the time with Raine and he seems to be enjoying the conversations, being on our 'farm' and the cooking and baking I...

Even though we had a relatively cool July, There wasn't a whole lot of baking going on. There was, however, a fair amount going on in th...

It may be past strawberry season where you live, but we are still enjoying fresh strawberries from the Hwy. 12 stand. No strawberries? Try t...

  Sweetie isn't usually a cake person, but he really liked the Warm Buttermilk Vanilla Cake that I made in May and then again, in a larg...

Many, many moons ago a very artistic cook wrote...actually hand-lettered...and hand illustrated (no photos) an amazing cookbook called the M...