L. and I had a good time planning and shopping for the menu and got into the holiday mood for the first time while doing so and, for the...

You can find dried limes in specialty spice stores and online. Traditional dried limes are first boiled in a salt brine and then left to...

When we lived in Santa Barbara, I found a little restaurant with a lovely garden in back which served a version of these. Theirs had...

One of the pleasures of summer is the abundance of fruit available, particularly stone fruit. Unfortunately, not to sound like a...

I have fully recovered from my overwhelming feelings of failure where sauerkraut is concerned. This was delicious. There did not seem to...

Not quite sure how it happened but somehow I took a photo that looks like something out of a 1970s cookbook! L. and I contributed a...

Jaunty cap notwithstanding, the counter sauerkraut is coming along nicely and I am inordinately proud of it. I had my doubts on day 1....

Many years ago, before the Internet, I decided to make sauerkraut. My local greengrocer had gifted me with 2 HUGE cabbages and I was at a...

I have to admit to being exceedingly pleased with myself. This was more work than I expected it to be, but I quite enjoyed it. And the...

I only made 2 yolks since this was a bit of an experiment and I was going in blind. These turned out beautifully and were absolutely...

And here it is folks, the slightly extra terrestrial, alien egg, horror movie insect chrysalis, looking result of my cured egg yolk...

I couldn't sleep last night so fell down the rabbit hole of YouTube - from excerpts of The Graham Norton Show to weird, wonderful, and...

Thanks to the folk at unsplash for the photo above. When I get around to setting it on the day, I doubt that my table will be quite so...

The email query that I most receive concerns my meal planning methodology (a very pedantic way of saying getting my computer and...

Part of the joy of cooking a duck is all that you can do with everything that is leftover after you have made a meal of it. I love a meal...

L. was out for lunch with his dad and I got peckish, with a pretty empty on the lunch items fridge on my hands. Amazing what one can do...

Since L. often mentions that I need to work on my presentation, I decided that I would make an extra effort for last night's dinner...

The picture above is but half of the five pound slab of spareribs that I purchased for this dinner party. These Sweet, Sour and Spicy...

Hmmmm....You win some, you lose some. Everything tasted good tonight but not everything was quite right. That happens to us all at some...

I delayed the cats' breakfast, which usually gets served between 5 and 7am while I make my coffee, in order to read the paper online in...

Not only has it been quite chilly for early September but I succombed to the pleasures of autumn vegetables at the farmers' market this...

I had a glut of cherry tomatoes from CSA box overkill and decided to preserve them before it was too late. These keep for a really long...

It was my mother's birthday last night and I wanted to make a dinner for her that encompassed all manner of summer produce before those...

L. and I have moved and my mom had yet to see our new digs so we invited her to brunch on the spur of the moment. It is amazing what you...