This summer has been one of the warmest we have had in years up here in Minnesota, not the kind of weather that encourages much use of the oven. Still, there are occasions when a special dessert might be called for. With blueberries having been featured at attractive prices for the past several weeks, I…

  One sign that we are well into summer is the appearance of pick up trucks full of fat ears of corn at familiar corners around town. Sweet corn season has arrived! So we buy the first dozen, grilling them to perfection. Then we buy some more because that first dozen was so good. Now…

(Reader alert: This is a blog entry with lots of memories before getting to the recipe. If you are just looking for how to make cherry jam, scroll to the bottom of the post.) I grew up in the upper Midwest where the climate was too cold for sweet cherries but where “pie cherries”–a kinder…

I first learned to prepare pork with green chiles back in Arizona, and I still associate this combination with warm summer days. Back then, I would cook the meat to the falling apart stage and then use it as a kind of pulled pork filling for good hard rolls. While that still is an option,…