i learned to make this fantastic vegetarian dish at the new york wine and food festival, courtesy of chef mark ladner.  if i had seen this...

saturday morning i got up at 5 am....jumped in the car and headed to new york city to meet 3 friends and spend a wonderful day cooking and ...

mark vetri's roast pork photo from bon appetit september 2012 mark bittman's tomato basil corn salad summer is almost gon...

ok you are thinking Another French Toast recipe????? well, all i have to say to that is this one is perfection.  brit and i keep tinkering w...

stuffing is one of the stars of the thanksgiving meal....i make my own ..... i don't put it in the bird and i don't grind up any of ...

thanksgiving has been one of my favorite holidays for as far back as i can remember and that is pretty far.   tilly always cooked for thank...

one year, a good friend of mine had a summer barbecue and made a phenomenal spicy lime shrimp recipe (from gourmet magazine) on the barbecue...

i have a morning ritual...my husband brings me a cup of coffee in bed, monday thru friday...i scoot up against the headboard and turn on the...

i love pulled pork sandwiches!  tilly's brother herbie introduced me to these sandwiches at an early age.  we  might be  yankees but we ...

happy weekend after the fourth, everyone! i had company all week and cooked up a storm......brit and i sat in the kitchen and sampled the cr...

karen got me a groupon coupon gift.....a big discount on pick your own strawberries at scotts in east lyme.  having missed the saturday hour...

one of my favorite things to order at bobby flay's mesa grill is 16 spice pork.....it is so good.  i like a lot of what bobby flay makes...

the new stove arrived on saturday morning...thank god! i love it, i love it, i love it !!!! can not believe i waited this long to get a rea...

today would be tilly's 91st birthday.   tilly who made me every birthday cake since i was born ......about 27 years ago it dawned on me ...

easter....one of my favorite holidays as a child.  my aunt ethel and my grandmother tilly would make sure i had  a wonderful easter basket f...

potato salad i was invited to brunch at karen's house on sunday.  we like to share the cooking so i set out to make some homemade b...

i promised that i was going to try the chocolate croissant recipe that anne thornton did on april 2 on desserts first.  i had another sheet...

i love cheese danish.  this is a great breakfast on the weekend with a nice hot cup of coffee.  they are really super easy to make....... es...

this one also has a connection to tilly.  she bought me a subscription to yankee magazine for 2 years.  one of those issues had a fantastic ...

britany sent me this via email as a menu suggestion for one of our weekend cooking projects.  i headed over to the butcher and asked for han...