We had a tight schedule to keep and plenty to do when my niece Erin and I met up Monday to plan and cook a meal. We ended up with so much wacking, pressing, chopping and seasoning that I FORGOT TO TAKE PICTURES! I only realized this ridiculous omission when we sat down to eat. [...]
Our friends' cherry tree stands as their perfect metaphor. Bright, strong, resilient, exceedingly generous and firmly rooted, the tree invites visitors and provides them with a hearty snack. It shades and supports them, and offers year-round entertainment. Its bumper crop of cherries might sag a lesser tree, but Pete and Mary Abraham's tree maintains perfect [...]
A couple of throbbing sweet teeth and a house that hasn't seen a proper bowl of ice cream all summer gave rise to a delicious battle Saturday night and the winners and still the champs turned out to be two innocent spectators, Katherine and me.If Plato did say that necessity is the mother of invention, [...]
My friend Tami and I found ourselves in a win-win-win situation earlier this spring when a representative from the Laughing Fox Farms paid us a visit. Mitch Eggers, our sons' friend, offered us a share in a new Community Supported Agriculture farm operated just outside out town. Fresh Produce? Win. The chance to support an [...]
You know those weeks when your parents don’t go to the grocery store so they can “purge” your freezer? And eventually you’re so sick of the defrost setting on the microwave you think that if you hear it beep one more time, you’ll throw it across the room? Yeah, I just had one of those [...]