When a dear friend calls and says, ‘Would you cook for me? I really feel like lamb. I’ll even pick up the lamb.’ How can you say no? The original plan was for (...)
This is my Mom’s recipe – with a few changes over the years from me. A work in progress, so to speak. My Mom never really struck me as the BBQ sauce type. But, (...)
Maple ice cream with wet walnuts and maple caramel sauce
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While we all believe that finding friends, keeping friends, nurturing those friendships is hard – well, it is, actually. Trust can be hard. Still liking those (...)
In March 1990 Food & Wine had a special chocolate issue. On the cover of the issue was a brownie recipe called Lovey’s Brownies. Many of the staffers (...)
“Hi, Mom.” “Hi, lovey.” “I’m at camp.” “I know.” “I’m already homesick. The food is yucky. I’m broke.” “I’m sorry, honey. I’ll send you some money. And cookies (...)
As Robert Burns once wrote … ‘The best laid schemes ‘o mice an’ men’ … As anyone still out there may recall, this past January I took a stand against cyber (...)
Seriously, it don’t get much easier than this! After making it through freezing peach pie filling, how hard could apple pie filling be? Certainly apples are (...)
AHHH, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving … Sometimes I think the Thanksgiving is when it’s over! It’s a lot of work. A lot of cooking. For us, a LOT of driving! And … (...)
As you learned from the Pear Liqueur post just a few days ago, the Dear one and I were married in October. It only took us 45 years to get there, but the (...)
I have been wanting to make a beurre blanc sauce since watching Meryl Streep drool over the sauce while portraying Julia Child in Julie & Julia. I am an easily (...)
Hello, computer, my old friend It’s nice to type on you again Brian fixed you, oh, so sweetly Back on my desk, oh, so neatly … It’s been a really long slog (...)
And so there are strawberries. And the strawberries have strawberries. There are many gallon bags filled with strawberries in our freezer. How many smoothies (...)
My favorite part of any BBQ. Don’t get me wrong. I love grilled burgers and hot dogs. And great ribs tickle me pink. Nothing better than a steak or sausage on (...)
So my friend Lizzy from That Skinny Chick Can Bake (if you haven’t read her blog or don’t follow her on Facebook, what are you waiting for, go on, do it!) and (...)
Macaroni salad is without a doubt my son’s favorite side dish. Winter or summer, makes no difference at all. When I have bought macaroni salad in the past, he (...)
Dear Mother Nature: ENOUGH! You’ve had you’re little joke! We get it. We live in Maine. Snow is part of the equation … except for, as my friend John Dwyer (...)
Recently observed and overheard … She sat – minding her own business – munching on Whoppers while reading a book. He says – “Hey, I love Whoppers!” She says – (...)
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr once said “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” … “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. Not that I’m one to (...)
This falls under the posts I wasn’t able to do during computer-geddon. So, what should we plant in our garden, says me. Well, we need to have cucumbers. Ava (...)
While we’re not quite at that time of year here in Maine, it is that time … STRAWBERRIES! I love strawberries just hulled and sliced with a bit of sugar and (...)
I’ve just returned to Maine after having spent Christmas and New Year’s in New York with my family and friends. The Dear One – whose name I may now change to (...)
I come from an Italian and Greek family. We celebrate a lot of things with a lot of food. But, here comes St. Patrick’s Day. The Dear One is Irish (mostly) and (...)
When the Dear One and I talked about getting married – really, the hows and wheres and whos part of getting married – it became apparent to us that we wanted (...)
One of the best things about the job I started last summer are all the new friends I have made. Don’t get me wrong, there have been some real clunkers, but (...)
