• move over Green Giant

    - - Today lunch was a delightful platter of roasted vegetables. I had a Spanish onion, cubanelle pepper, eggplant, grape heirloom tomatoes and a small beefsteak tomato that were cooked outside on the...

  • fresh vegetables

    - - - ​I’m still hunting down recipes that can be cooked outside on the grill. Recently, I found on The New York Times webpage, Cooking, a recipe by Ali Slagle for Grilled Chicken with Tomatoes and Corn....

  • summer's bounty

    - - - ​My Dreyer Farm’s CSA offerings this summer have been wonderful; a great selection of produce to try out new and varied recipes. Recently, on The New York Times website, there were several recipes...

  • mother nature

    [Image description] Recently when I was in the mood for meat loaf. Many years ago, I purchased a steel grill meat loaf pan from Williams-Sonoma. The loaf pan has an open bottom with a handled insert and...

  • 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,...