Peaches! Ripe, juicy white peaches just begged to go into a pie. Thought I'd combine them with some blackberries from down the driveway, but it's been too ...

I've made Irish soda bread often, usually using the recipe given to me by Aunt May, a woman fully Irish and a great baker. The version of soda bread that I ...

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. Yesterday we ...

 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 grown in the ...

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 the ...

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

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't find appealing ...

Hard to believe that we are a week into December. Seems like Halloween was just yesterday and then, Whoosh!, here we are less than three weeks away from ...

It's appropriate, I think, that the beginning post for my year leading up to 20 blogging years should be for a recipe that reflects both my experience ...

 Sweetie loves to eat mushrooms. He often chooses menu items with mushrooms when we eat out and he loves it when I add mushrooms to what I'm cooking. When ...