Cooking At Home

I have never been a fan of Halloween.  But I love Halloween candy. "I bought you a bag of candy corn." "Candy corn?" ...

John and I had just finished off a bag of Maria's biscotti which we came across at a farmer's market in western New Jersey. They wer...

Fall appeared in all its glory this past weekend, and it brought with it the desire to cook something for the season.  Since T and J were c...

As I have said before, biscotti are my favorite cookies to bake. These twice-baked cookies are easy to make and the perfect sweet, and somet...

I've never been one to lament the end of summer. Don't get me wrong, I love the days at the beach and the plethora of fruits and veg...

I found myself at home for lunch the other day with a few very ripe tomatoes and a small piece of fresh mozzarella. I decided to cut one o...

"Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?" Margaret Titzel Although I grew up eating figs straight from the fig trees in o...

"Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti." Sophia Loren Spaghetti does not look the same on me as it does on Sophia Loren.  Never...

The comic strip writer, Bill Watterson, once said, "Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something pointless."  An...