For me Thanksgiving is all about being grateful and, of course, the turkey, but for the rest of my family I think it might be all about the pies. I also ...

A number of years ago I baked a recipe for Blondies with lots of yummy stir-ins. Over the years I made variations on that recipe and named them things like ...

Reading can be inspiring. I recently finished reading The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama and I was inspired to bake Chinese Almond Cookies. These are ...

As the days have been getting shorter the tomatoes still left on the vine have been ripening increasingly slowly. There are still a lot of green tomatoes ...

Everything is just growing like crazy, so it seems like a good idea to show a few photos of how things are in the garden now. If you stand on the sidewalk ...

I don't remember having fresh apricots when I was growing up. We just ate canned apricots. When I came to California I discovered the joy of the fresh ...

 The little kid that still lives inside me became very excited when I saw this recipe on Dorie Greenspan's Substack newsletter. Cookies for breakfast just ...

I love making quiche for dinner and Sweetie loves eating it. The great thing about quiche is that you can put lots of different things in it and so it's a ...

Our weekend included a lovely brunch on Sunday with long time friends and, in the afternoon, tea and a game of Rubicubes with an artist friend of mine. ...

If you've been a reader here for long, you know that my favorite season is Fall, but Spring is right behind it. We are having such a lovely spring, full of ...