Cooking At Home

It's hard to believe that it has been almost a year since our move. I was surprised that my adjustment to the change took much lon...

After a gloriously sunny weekend we awoke to a Monday morning of hard downpours and snarled traffic. I am thankful that at least we had the...

My friend, L, has been telling me about Olga's pork chops forever. How they are the best pork chops she has ever made, how she will n...

The changing sky from our balcony I know, I know, I really need to stop whining about winter. But it is just days before April is sch...

The temperature is 28 degrees and much too cold to be greeting a long awaited Spring. I enjoy the hearty comforting foods of winter as mu...

Sunrise One of the  daily writing prompts this month from Write Alm is "return." It  made me think that this may be the ...

I just love this link .  I hope you do, too. M

It's been quite some time since I visited my own pages here. As usually takes place with John and me,everything seems to happen a...

  The temperature, after many false starts, is finally rising in New Jersey. Although one still needs to wear a light jacket, the sun i...

The calendar says it's Spring, but here in the Northeast it is still just 29 degrees. Enough already! It's April for goodness sa...

Chicken all Romana a la Rachel This past week has been a tough one for me, and I am beginning to realize that one of my...

As anyone who reads about food knows food fads come and go. Cauliflower has now replaced broccoli  as the darling of the cruciferous fami...

It's snowing already, and we're now under a blizzard watch. Seriously? It feels like "deja vu all over again." So I...

With what seemed to be a marathon of cooking and entertaining during the holidays behind me, it was time for a break. Whew. While I woul...

The holi-daze are here. You know what I mean. I love the reason for the season, but all of the holiday hubbub of...