Category: Life

I’ve hesitated to post anything but I know people are cooking more than usual while sheltering at home. More people are visiting this web site and I assume you are looking for recipes but also perhaps looking for ideas on how to manage cooking, make menus, use up leftovers, and so forth. I’ve often said…

Earlier I wrote up my favorite recipes and now here are the most popular recipes, or at least the most visited recipes, in 2018. The recipes aren’t all from 2018 as many earlier ones continue to be favorites. Lidia’s Red Cabbage and Bacon Salad Nigel Slater’s Chicken and Leek Pie White Bean and Ham Soup…

I know it’s popular to do a rundown of the most popular recipes on a food blog, and I probably will do that, but I also wanted to highlight my personal favorites. These are new to me dishes that I’ve already made more than once this year. Roasted Green Olives. These are cooked with orange…

I mentioned before that I’ve been learning to weld and do wood turning. Over the weekend Marlo and I installed two sculptures and a fountain at the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, an amazing 3.5 acres of succulents and drought-tolerant plants. This is a fund-raiser for the garden, with about 50 artists from around…

Since I haven’t posted a recipe in a while I thought I’d share a few of the other projects I’ve been working on. Wine Barrel Fountain Most recently finished was this fountain. A neighbor was getting rid of a hanging chair stand and I thought it would make a great base for a fountain. Learned…