This is the scene outside right now...winter has arrived with a vengeance and we here in Maine are girding ourselves for quite the snowstor...

James created this box as a touchstone for the myth of the Yellow Emperor, Huang Di , patron of Taoism, inventor of the principles of Chi...

The ingredients...minus the egg I forgot! Look at the apples, they are Black Oxfords grown in Paris, Maine...they are beautiful! The ...

(Don't know why my pictures are in the wrong order...but they should be reversed....!!) Yes indeed you are going to think I am t...

My local Food Co-op , one of the main reasons why we live in Belfast, Maine, has challenged it shoppers to the Eat Local Challenge . Here i...

Here is a recipe for the Brit delight, Treacle Toffee, which could in the US be called molasses toffee, but as I love the word treacle so ...

SO...from top to bottom we have the field across the road from my house in all it's burnished cider and marmalade colours, apples on th...

BEGUINAGE REVISITED by Janet Shea It is a thirteenth-century beguinage, a community of holy women--mothers, aunts, ancestral sisters--tendin...

To be honest they are the stuff of legend...honeeest...they are the 'cakes' King Alfred burned, silly man!!!...actually I burned...

As you can see the pictures really speak for themselves! Fall is at full gallop here in Maine and the colours are near peak, I will take mor...

On this day of mists (it really is misty out there) and mellow fruitfulness (our neighbour, Tom, did indeed just bring us a pumpkin he had g...

In typical inimitable British style this dessert recipe is called a pudding because ALL Brit desserts come under the title of ‘pudding’ ...