Portugal dreams and tears… and Ciao.
How one song turned my head around in Portugal some years ago, and a farewell to my readers as I bid adieu to “Journeys Over a Hot Stove.”
Super pasta sauce for canning!
It’s tomato time, and this is my favorite pasta sauce recipe for home canning! Not too hard, and it’s a year’s worth of reward for your tastebuds.
About Stuff, and Corn Meal Mush
Some thoughts about people who collect stuff, and some of the stuff they collect, plus a traditional recipe for corn meal mush.
Knock-em-dead Harissa sauce!
Genuine Mediterranean harissa sauce – a quick recipe that will spice up your cooking for months! Plus, a hair-raising aloft…
American Longitudes
Longitudinal musings – from the Maritimes to the American West, where, author Bill Bryson states, “people like to shoot things.”
Rockland’s North Beacon Oyster – bivalve paradise!
Dipping my toes ever so slightly into a restaurant review – featuring newly opened North Beacon Oyster in Rockland. Great bivalves!
Bad Mood BBQ
How do you feel before a backyard BBQ when so many things are irritating you? Cranky? You should be so lucky.
Knockout celery seed dressing
Recalling what a “salad” was when I was growing up, and sharing a friend’s recipe for a blowout-yummy celery seed and onion salad dressing.
Watch the Skies… homemade peach schnapps
Some thoughts on elevation and clarity of sight, visual anomalies, and an easy-peasy homemade peach schnapps recipe.
Nova Scotia calamity — and Gillian’s potato bake
A slightly modified repost of remembering a rollicking night of excess just doing my job as a journalist and TV writer, the story of John and Marge Fairservice’s survival on a rock in the ocean, plus a delicious warm-me-up potato dish provided by my daughter-in-law Gillian.
