I think mother nature has decided that a new ice age is a good idea and that its all gonna start this last January. we have a good 3 to 3.5 feet of snow on the ground here. Today we have yet another storm that will yield 2 more feet of snow. Then this Saturday...

Gabriel (above), I and my family wish you a bright and shiny New Year where you find your dreams blossom and the goodness in others as well as ourselves. I dont do New Years resolutions but I can tell you a few things that I plan on doing this year. I know that our garden...

This is just a quickie reminder and a bit of torture to visit my Ghirardelli Chocolate giveaway at this link to see loads of chocolate food porn and to enter to win a much needed...

(notice the huge amount of sugar on there? Kids got a bit carried away when I had my back turned) I am going to be shooting a few scenes from around here this Thanksgiving morning. I will be adding more if I have the energy! Our meal will consist of a relatively modest menu, we...

Some years Thanksgiving seems to float in, stays for a vague day of pointless overeating, and then slips away into dim memories. This year I feel genuinely thankful for so many things. I am profoundly thankful for: the health of my children their hard work this year in school the 4 yo progressing so very...

Visit my new page with a Ghirardelli chocolate wonderland and chance to win a $100 Visa gift card here -> LINK I will also be sharing a recipe for chocolate chip cheesecake and for these delicious caramel chocolate covered apples you see below. Make the...

Jeeeeeepers I have been having problems with my commenting system. I would get your lovely comments and entries into the various giveaways I had going but I could not get the system to accept them. I have upgraded my blogging software, further hardened my security and gone through and accepted all qualifying comments and now...

As we all move into the holiday season, many of us will be gearing up to do quite a lot of baking and then cooking on Thanksgiving and the end of year holiday feasts. One of the things I love about this time is cooking with pumpkin and also the traditional spices such as cinnamon,...

If you have sharp eyes, you may notice I have a new badge in my sidebar to the right (also shown above). Gourmet is launching what looks like a really neat new project – or perhaps its better to say the natural extension to their brand. Specifically, this is a content (read food porn) heavy...

[Details on the Pillsbury pie crust prize pack giveaway pack at the bottom of this post. This giveaway closed as of 10/26/10 at 9:00 pm EDT] I live in apple country here in the Northeastern part of the US (central Massachusetts) so I am situated in the middle of many thousands of acres of apple...