Happy Halloween! Today is the third anniversary of the Halloweener cats coming into our home.  Trick (far left) and Treat (in the mid...

Twas the night before Halloween... We made a nice chicken stew with blackened cornbread... It was bootiful!

Here is our yogurt rant. It always comes up when yogurt commercials come on the television.  One large yogurt company did a commercial bra...

Since we spend a lot of time in the kitchen, we are always getting gifts of produce.  We love getting produce.  The problem is, most of ...

This year in the garden we tried to grow delicata squash.  We had one little squash.  During the height of summer, care and concern went i...

Several years ago, I wanted to buy a very expensive rug from Britain that bore the 1939 propaganda phrase: "Keep Calm and Carry On....

 Baker extraordinaire, Dorrie Greenspan, is famous for her cookie jammers.  Basically they are shortbread cookies with jam and streusel on...

Today is Chuck Williams' 99th birthday.      As the founder of Williams-Sonoma, he has transformed the way we cook. ...

and Charlie and his chocolate factory. The year marks the 50th anniversary of two of Roald Dahl's most endearing characters.  In the ...

Little did I know when I picked up this little sprite of a kitten, with ribs like fish bones that she would grow into the big bruiser of t...