There's nothing better than pumpkin muffins made from real pumpkins. Select the sugar pies, also called sugar pumpkins. Their smaller size is easier to scoop and tastes sweeter than larger carving…

My mother was the 1954 summer Cover Girl for County Line, a Monmouth New Jersey magazine. As a 1st generation Italian, Mariana Elvira Lucia Siciliano did not have the female look that was popular in…

How many small towns in America can boast having a resident artisan baker? In the Silicon Valley hamlet of Los Altos, California, a century-old railroad station is poised at the town's entrance,…

When life gives you lumps, make dumpling soup. In Italian, gnocchi translated means "lumps" and gnochetti is an even more diminutive size or little lumps. Today we are making an easy finger-pinched…

Nothing beats a picnic, especially a stay-at-home one. Recently I brought a friend a picnic after she injured her foot. We sat outside in her garden which eliminated the worry of driving, parking and…

Many of us plod along through life asking ourselves lots of WHYS? Why this school? Why that career? Why move? Consider this: the question WHY might be standing in the way of the adventures of a…

  I will never take freshly baked bread for granted again. The work and time it takes to produce the perfect crumb, raw dough gently massaged in the cup of one's hands, back and forth, a…

It’s a guarantee. Life throws curve balls. Life also waits for no man. Commitments, gatherings, appointments, deadlines and dishes. All of it, good stuff. Every day, everyman stuff. The daily stuff…