While my diet leans heavily toward the vegetarian side, I am not a vegan and don’t generally stock some of the foods that show up in so many vegan recipes–no vegan chocolate chips, vegan Worcestershire sauce, etc. I am also still pretty wary about the “health benefits” of coconut products, so the only form of…

Now that killing frosts have finished off our northern gardens for another year, some of us have access to a lot of green tomatoes. Perhaps my southern friends think immediately of frying ups these end of the season beauties, but, for me, green tomatoes in the fall mean just one thing: green tomato mincemeat.  I…

Sometimes, a slight adaptation of a recipe yields an entirely new end product.  Today, I wanted to use the now abundant apples and raspberries for a cake, but I also didn’t have a lot of time so would probably do better with cupcakes. I didn’t have exactly what I was looking for in my files,…

Lots of bananas that suddenly turned very ripe in the late, unexpected, September heat. A big box of Grape-Nuts still to be used. Walnuts at a better price than they have been for years. Time for Banana Grape-Nuts bread. This is a recipe I started making years ago, with just a few tweaks here and…