• the start of summer

    [Image description] ​We survived our first official weekend of summer. Despite the heavy rains at the Jersey shore on Sunday, Thursday through Saturday were beautiful weather days. If you live at the...

  • perfect BBQ side

    [Image description] ​It’s Memorial Day weekend and you’ve been invited to a barbecue. Being the congenial friend, you offer to bring a side dish. No hostess wants to be checking the oven for a side dish...

  • belated birthday dinner

    [Image description] Although my daughter celebrated her 30th birthday last June, she and I finally got to share her birthday dinner. Last fall I gave her tickets to see the Broadway play, "Hamilton."...

  • fresh

    [Image description] ​With the arrival of warmer weather, soft shell crabs are coming to market. While shopping at Wegmans today, they had in their fish case cleaned soft shell crabs for $6 ea. However,...

  • overnight guest

    [Image description] My husband’s cousin was passing through New Jersey on her way to pick up her daughter from college. She planned an overnight visit with us, which was so thoughtful of her as we haven’t...

  • one last recipe for mother's day

    [Image description] ​In building a rotation of breakfast egg dishes for my husband, I came across a recipe for a Baked Asparagus and Yellow Pepper Frittata from the April 1999 issue of Gourmet Magazine....