Since the start of the pandemic in the U.S., I have been baking sourdough breads. Every week, I make a whole wheat cinnamon raisin swirl loaf using…
Kristen Coffield, the editor of The Culinary Cure website and member of Fashion Flash, has just launched a new book that is blowing me away: How Healthy…
Although one must be very careful ordering anything via an ad on Facebook, I have finally cracked the code on how to decipher which sites are legit…
The supermarket I shop at started carrying fresh pasta at reasonable prices about a year ago. This was a game changer for me. Fresh pasta cooks in…
I’ve been making gazpacho, the cold Spanish vegetable soup, for years, but lately I have fallen in love with it all over again. My friend, Kim, told…
When you’re given too many yellow squash, make Squash Corn Casserole! Jeff planted yellow squash in his vegetable garden because he knows I love them. And all…
Today, I picked up a 3 pound bag of almonds at Costco for $11.99. Jeff likes to eat a handful of almonds for breakfast, and I like…
I love all kinds of DIY projects. So when I read about regrowing certain vegetables in a glass of water, I was in. I think that this…
Since I have been unsuccessful at getting deliveries from both Instacart and Whole Foods/Amazon Prime, I go to the supermarket when necessary. But I have been trying…
These days, every day seems the same, so it’s easy to lose track. I had meant this post to go live on Earth Day, but I got…
Lately, I’ve been taken by the English chef, Jamie Oliver. Actually for years, I’ve found his easy style of cooking to be fantastic. My go-to Jamie Oliver/Mark…
Everyone is so busy on Thanksgiving day (and probably the day before too, but anyway), so I want to wish you and yours a very happy Thanksgiving…
Tonight was the final event of the season for the North Shore Horticultural Society, the garden club I’ve been a member of for about 16 years. As…
I love to make things. And for me, cooking fits into the do-it-yourself category. Maybe not all the time, but at least some of the time. A…
Every year in December, my book club has a special get-together with a festive meal and a Yankee Swap with books. No matter whose house it’s at,…
Now that the holidays are over, you’re probably tired of cooking. But then some of us love to do more cooking during the winter when many of…
In the fall after tick season is over, I like to go hiking or walking with my friend Sue in the woods near where I live. Over…
I haven’t been feeling well for the past several days. Some form of gastroenteritis, I think, or else it’s the return of diverticulitis. I don’t usually complain…
Last Saturday, my friends and I stopped into a wonderful handmade pasta shop, Pastaio, that just moved to a bigger, more centrally located shop in Gloucester MA.…
If you follow Never Say Die Beauty, you know that I love picking fruit and enjoy making my own jam. I’ve written about making strawberry and blueberry jams in the…