italian food

I wrote the Meatloaf for a Chef post almost two years ago and it continues as the most visited recipe on my…

A couple of weeks ago, my daughter Sara used my blog to cook for a bunch of friends. It was the first…

My vegetable garden is still full of gorgeous tomatoes that deserve to be used up before they over ripen and  fall to…

The most wonderful thing about being back in the city is reconnecting with our friends. Grabbing a coffee mid afternoon at one…

  The Queens County Fair Gagetown lets you see the best from the local farmers. The sunflowers were sixteen feet tall and…

The light’s changing. The brilliance of summer is fading to shorter days full of shadows. Food blogging is such a funny thing…

Caprese salad is my – can’t resist it – would wrestle a grizzly bear for it – favorite salad.  To me, it’s…

This time of year is wild in the vegetable garden. I went down yesterday to pick a few green beans to make…

Zucchini blossoms are sunshine on a stem. Magnetic but too hot to touch – until now. Every cook has that elusive dish…

It was less of a barn raising and more of a barn covering. A covering of what one hundred and ten years…