Lest everyone think I eat only bacon-filled soups and homemade cookies, here is my post-gym snack: plain yogurt with almonds, dates, flax se...

After my piano students perform in a recital I always put on a dessert buffet for them to make up for the trauma--complete with a lace table...

This is the recipe Grandma Oty baked for us back in the fifties: Peanut Blossoms 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup peanut butter 1/2 cup white sugar 1/...

This is a modified version of a Louis Osteen recipe. (By the way, we have two identical copies of this book if you would like one.) I ser...

This post may appear to have nothing to do with cooking, but there's nothing that makes me want to stay home and cook like a solid week ...

I forgot to include this photo of our wonderful Piedmont Peppers from the weekend. The recipe is in Rustic Italian Cooking by Kathleen Sloa...

I'm here today simply to pass on a recipe of my favorite kind--three ingredients and no unnecessary fuss. Caramel has been near the top ...

I'm back! But only for another few minutes; I'm off to Atlanta for the night with Lawson. I have many, many pictures of food I ate...

These are paperwhites that I forced from bulbs Nancy gave us for Christmas. I made a Persian kuku today. It’s like a frittata or omelette, ...

We had a nice, reasonable dinner last night instead of stuffing ourselves. I made fresh albacore in an Italian red wine sauce, whole wheat c...

Neither Lawson nor I was very hungry tonight, but I bought some nice zucchini, so I went digging through my recipe file* to find the old rec...

I finally turned my back on decades of Cuisinart food processing and asked for a KitchenAid for my birthday this year. Ain’t it handsome? M...

It’s cold here today—what Katherine charitably calls “cooking weather.” Dad and I were inspired to visit two ethnic markets this morning and...

Lawson had some dental surgery this week, so for the last several days we've been eating soft foods. It's been a fun challenge. Th...

It may just have been indigestion, but in the early hours of this morning I believe I had a vision. The Supreme Being informed me that it wa...