It’s said that if you go back far enough, we’re all related. That feels true on many levels, particularly when you see someone walking down the street who reminds you of a beloved aunt or long-gone grandparent. We are one big family going about separate...

What do you do when you miss a couple of days at the vegetable garden and your cucumbers look like this? And when your tomatoes have not yet ripened to make gazpacho with those cucumbers? I have that problem right now. Because of the late frosts in our region of North...

(Based on an English recipe by Dan Lepard at GoodFood) My friend Karen L sent me this luscious sounding recipe from a British website and I tried it out on a rainy October night. The original recipe by Dan Lepard called for vermouth, but with none on hand, I used a...