• for the love of cooking

    - - - ​Despite the heat, I’m still cooking. When considering what to cook, I do consider the weather and what I have from my weekly CSA box. Such was the case when I chose Yewande Komolafe’s recipe for...

  • welcome to manhattan

    - - ​I made my first trip into Manhattan since COVID. My daughter wanted to see Sean Hayes in “Good Night Oscar” and her husband wasn’t interested. Initially she was talking about an evening performance,...

  • steamy days of summer

    - - - ​The steamy days of summer really put a kink in one’s cooking. However, I’ve been finding some delicious one pot pasta dishes that go well in this hot weather. Melissa Clark’s recipe for One-Pan...

  • too hot to cook, or is it?

    - - - I don’t mind being in the kitchen in the summer as we have central air conditioning and I limit what I prepare in the oven. As a matter of fact, I just made Amy’s Oh’s Very Best Cookie and Chocolate...

  • hello foodies, remember me?

    - - - - - The summer is off and running at my house. My granddaughters are taking swimming lessons at a local health club, so they’re at my home every Thursday. Depending on my daughter’s calendar, it...