This is one of my wife’s baking projects. This recipe appeared as “Dori Greenspan’s Custardy Apple Squares” in Washington Post which drew my...

This is another one of my wife’s “variations on the theme of blini”. This started when I made “ chestnut apple soup ” as an autumnal dish. T...

This all started when my wife made “ apple pie muffin ”. Since the recipe called for “apple cider”, which we did not have, I used our juicer...

We received a Christmas present which included a good number of apples and pears. We finished all the pears and made a significant dent in t...

As part of the season, we received some fresh fruit which included of several Granny Smith Apples. In general, these apples are not good eat...

Some years ago, we gave up on preparing  fresh chestnuts  especially the North American variety. These have a characteristic tough inner mem...