This blog has been rather quiet of late. I'm still cooking, but I've been posting new recipes at a new website:   Cook and Count . T...

I like ice cream. A lot. That's the problem. Ice cream is yummy, but it's also very easy to eat way too much of it. Since...

In the middle of winter, you need all the sunshine you can get, and with citrus fruit at its peak of flavor (and lowest price), it's a g...

Excuse the slightly-lumpy icing--I should have poured the sugar more carefully. I'm not much of a cake baker, and most of the cakes...

It's a Sick Day for my daughter today, so I've got a pot of homemade chicken-noodle soup simmering on the stove. Chicken soup really...

A friend of ours gave us a bottle of "the good stuff":   real maple syrup from Coombs Family Farms . I had to act quickly if I ...

This soup got started as the Corn Chowder recipe from 365 Slow Cooker Suppers . That chowder needed something, so I decided it spice it up w...