The recipe at the end of this post is based on an old recipe that was very new to me when I went searching for a “jam-filled cookie” some time ago. When I found the recipe on one site, it seemed just what I was looking for, and the blog post-er made quite a big…

While oranges are available pretty much year round, this is the season when, at least here in the Midwest, they are most economical, and usually a little more flavorful and sweeter too. It is also the season when the trees we had in our back yard in Arizona would be loaded with both sweetest of…

 x Sometimes, the bananas all seem to ripen (or over-ripen) at once. When a couple of spots develop on those apples in the crisper drawer at the same time, it might just be time for a dessert that uses up both these kinds of fruit. This cake is super moist and is the kind that…

Novembrrrrr. This has been a pretty chilly fall here in the upper Midwest, and a winter storm advisory has just been posted for tonight, with perhaps 3 to 5 inches of snow in the forecast….And I still haven’t finished clearing the last (I hope) layer of leaves off of my deck. What better time to…

(The following post is from 2017 but still captures a bit of the story of a very traditional part of our year end holiday meals–all of them!) This year, work conflicts meant that all of our immediate family couldn’t gather on Thanksgiving day for the usual feast, so we would need to celebrate the holiday…

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…

. This is an old-fashioned cake that is just right for a chilly autumn evening or weekend dessert. It goes together pretty quickly, all in one saucepan, and the fragrance it will bring to your house–amazing! As I’ve noted before, I like to keep orange juice concentrate in the freezer for recipes like this. The…