• september days

    - - ​"By all these lovely tokens September days are here. With summer's best of weather, and autumn's best of cheer." – Helen Hunt Jackson As I awaken each morning at 5 AM, the world is dark with sunrise...

  • late August

    - - - The end of summer brings a bounty of wonderful tomatoes and other vegetables to market. Recently I found on The New York Times cooking app, a recipe for One-Pan Roasted Fish with Cherry Tomatoes....

  • height of summer

    - - ​Since I last posted, my husband and I have become the grandparents of another baby girl. This little gem joins my daughter, son-in-law and her almost three-year-old sister. We had the three-year-old...

  • two quick and easy recipes

    - - On a Tuesday, not Thursday pasta night, I made a new pasta dish for my husband and I. My son-in-law found two interesting recipes at the Good Housekeeping Magazine website. The first is Summer Squash,...

  • summer bounty

    - - - This is prime New Jersey tomato and corn season. My favorite summertime lunch is sliced Delicious Orchards English muffin bread, smeared with Duke’s Mayonnaise and sliced tomatoes. My daughter...