Isn't this the prettiest breakfast?  Avocado, fresh oranges, a few sprinkles of dill and scallions - and a few sugar snap pe...

It's been a while since I went food shopping, I realized last night as I searched the fridge and pantry - and the cold snap is here, fu...

My wits have not quite settled down living in this new city, so coming up with a new recipe post has been evading me lately.  Today I fell ...

Oh, how the moving continues!  The house is full of boxes - one corner is books, lots and lots of books, that no longer se...

Happy November!  To celebrate, Mother Nature is sending us another nor'easter in the next day or so, and I heard the *snow...

Yesterday morning I was circling the kitchen, trying to decide what to do with the bowl of apples from the orchard up the hill. ...

I first tasted this creme fraiche a few years ago, when my friend Mme. J, who grew up in Normandy, offered me a tast...

I woke up this morning just after a summer rainstorm had passed through  -  the morning breeze was cool and fresh :  per...

What a gentle Fall it's been - the leaves are lingering on the trees, the tomato plants are still green (no frost!) ...

Last week I was delighted to visit our local library for friend and neighbor Hillary Davis' book signing for her gorgeou...

Hot and humid, hot and humid with showers, hot and humid with thunderstorms - day after day, week after week, but when I remembe...

Boy, it's hot.  I mean 97 degrees hot, and that is not something those of us who live in the mountains of New ...

I am not sure what happened to me in the supermarket, but when I saw the rosy blush of fresh apricots, I was lost.  Small, plump ...

Oh, the pink of Spring!  Right now the pale pink magnolia trees are blooming, the hot pink azaleas, the rainbows of tulips...