I have a confession to make. For all my talk about fresh, homemade food, I love bean with bacon soup. And yes, I mean the stuff in the can with the red and white label. I know – it is a terrible secret, and I’...
This time of year, I really begin to crave something green. A lot of time that is a salad or some kind of raw green vegetable, but this spring has been so cold and nasty that I also still want comforting, warm, creamy so...
We are still on a zucchini kick around here. Nothing wrong with that as far as I can see. It’s a good year for squash, with plenty of rain and nice sunny days in between. The tomatoes are wishing it were a little w...
Finally! We have some nice warm, spring weather. Time to get out in the yard and garden and really get to work. As my grandmother used to say, we’ve been so busy that “our shirt tails haven’t touched us...
It has been one heck of a summer to be a gardener. To say the weather hasn’t cooperated would be an understatement. Cold late, then no rain for weeks, then way too much rain, then cold early, bugs in Biblical sized...
If there is a time better suited to big steaming cauldrons of hot soups, packed with tasty things, I don’t know when it would be. Here in the Northeast, we are still being battered by winter, and an unending succes...
Looking back over the recipes on my blog by the month, this time of year, everything seems to be orange. And I am okay with that! Pumpkins are orange, winter squash is orange, even oranges are orange. Orange is yummy. It...
… struggling to find normal. Oh my gosh – this is so hard. If you visit here very often, you may have seen my last post for Cranberry Eggnog Bread, which was also about my sister in law’s illness. Unfor...
Ah, January! Cold, windy, snowy, bitter. You make me want to hunker down and pull a pile of warm blankets over my head for a few weeks. Unfortunately such behavior is frowned upon in our modern world – even if you ...
Cook a fresh pumpkin for pies, muffins and cakes – it’s easy! October is always SO busy for us. We become slaves to the garden and the freezer and canner – have to get all that fresh produce taken care ...