with Honey Rosemary Mascarpone Filling and Candied Walnuts Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, I worked for a company in California. Sometimes I would go out to …

Sweet yet lightly salted walnuts with cinnamon and ginger. I don’t know why I haven’t candied walnuts before, but when I got my pears, I decided I needed to make …

My sister loves tomato basil soup. My sister also has four small children and has no time to turn around, let alone make lovely things like tomato basil soup. She …

Have you ever wanted to cook with lavender? Grow lavender? I have been trying both for two years now. Last year, my plants didn’t get very big. I only got …

Adapted just slightly from my dear friend Ann at The Fountain Avenue Kitchen Did I tell you about my friend’s pear tree? While we were at the lake last weekend, the …

Last weekend at the lake with my sister and her family, there was a lot of talk of scones. I had promised my niece I would make her scones, but …

This is a treasured soup for me … I have made it before (in similar form), but last time I made it I used yellow tomatoes and cream. I immediately …

My sister brought me some beautiful treasures from her garden. She brought two of these adorable little squash that I totally labelled as gourds. She kept arguing with me that …

We are at my friend’s lake house this morning. My sister brought a bunch of pears that quickly bruised and needed using and I had a bag of apples that …

with a Maple Cream Cheese Drizzle This is one of the things I had in mind when I made my Maple Amaretto Pumpkin Butter. I thought that using pumpkin butter …