It finally struck me that coconut oil in its raw form (un-melted) is almost the same consistency as shortening, so I should use it in pie crusts. Pie crust recipes are almost always insufficient to...

This is the weekend I thought I was going to provide a video of Nona making her lasagna with her sister, Sylvia, visiting from Italy. I promised back in June to do an interview with the Italian...

For the first time I attended a birthday that had a fruit cake – not a fruitcake, but a cake made only out of fruit. It was for a child’s first birthday. I’ve met a few mothers over this past year...

Especially if you have rainbow chard and want to use those beautiful stems, here is a creamy chard pasta comfort food for the next day after you make yesterday’s chard soup or anything that calls for...

You can see that chard is a superfood by looking at it and noticing the super dark green leaves, and once you know it is a member of the beet family (but without an edible bulbous root), it becomes...

Tomatoes are still coming in but I’m not sure how much longer we have until we get a frost. Right now it’s still in the 70s during the day here, and usually the 50s at night so the tomatoes are still...

While many articles say that you don’t need sugar in canning, almost all of the recipes have sugar. I wanted to use up all of the sweet peppers from Full Cellar Farm in a pepper relish and spent about...

If you follow my blog, you may know my kids are Russian. Two of them (13 and 16) got together and made this great Borscht. When they first arrived from Russia, we did quite a bit to maintain their...

This is my Uno’s copy pizza. During and after college I bartended at Uno’s in Ann Arbor and in San Diego (Pacific Beach) and my favorite pizza was spinoccoli. I haven’t had it much since then, but...

There was a recipe I wanted to try that called for lamb rib chops but all I remembered when I was talking to the farmer’s wife at the market was “lamb chops” and it turned out there were a half dozen...

Right when I was thinking it’s squash season and time to start thinking of what to do with everything from a pumpkin to a spaghetti squash, a friend told me fall means it’s bread and pizza season...

It is getting CHILLY! Not an easy time to sit on the cold bleachers at the school stadium. I actually got a hot chocolate and have no idea what was in it or how they made it – it was the only hot...