The Best Way to Cut Corn Off the Cob
The best way to cut corn off the cob begins with a cake pan.
Fresh corn kernels, good as gold in my book.
Even as I...
Peach Cake Recipe: A Peachy Version of Apple Cake
Peach Cake Recipe: moist, flavorful slices of summerMost cooks have a go-to recipe, one that never fails, one that they can make in their...
Recipe: My Favorite Garden Fresh Summer Gratin
Too much zucchini...crookneck squash?
Do I have a recipe for you!
One of my favorite summer dishes, a garden-fresh gratin, is an adaptable recipe based on...
Homemade Pickles: A Cucumber of Worthy Intent
Homemade Pickles cucumbers
A good pickle is worth its weight in apricot jam (another favorite of mine), but it takes a great cucumber to make...
Fifty-Something Fashion Sense: A Socks-and-Sandals Guy
My kind of hipster: socks and sandalsAs I set down my morning coffee in disbelief, the ugly truth came to light. There on my...
Homegrown Video: How Does My Garden Grow?
Homegrown Video and What's in my GardenKale starts, two months later you did me proud.
Having discovered the video setting on my point-and-shoot camera, has...
Snapshot: My Favorite Face of Summer
“Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered...
Lazy Days of Summer: A Progress Report
Chubby peach cheeks: I picked a bumper crop of three peaches from my Avalon Pride tree--delicious all!
Don't laugh, but today we will likely...
