High Summer at Pie Cottage Everything is coming on strong in my little Pie Cottage garden and orchard. I have been enjoying eating and sharing kale, beets, strawberries, broccoli, and more. The tomatoes have been setting blossoms and I’m seeing their fruits plumping up on the vines. I have twelve plants this year and when […]
How to Create a Recipe
An Experiment in the Oven It’s is in the oven. An experiment. I put it in 5 minutes ago and I wonder what will it turn out to be…a hit or a miss. I’ve made both. You would think I might take a hiatus from creating recipes for a time but on my counter today, […]
Welcoming Fall
Welcoming Fall It’s Fall. I wonder sometimes why we call it Autumn when Fall is so much more apt. Welcoming Fall. Branches heavily laden with ripe apples and quince. A shawl around my shoulders and socks on my feet in the morning, instead of bare. The first scent of woodsmoke wafting in my window from a neighbor […]