After canceling our weekend plans to go backpacking with friends (this becoming a bad habit for us), we had a weekend relatively free to do some things around town. On the top of our list…spending…

With summer temperatures on the cool down, I was running short on days to harvest my patio basil for pesto. Web searches for the perfect recipe netted some uninteresting variations of the standard… basil, olive…

Over the weekend, John and I took a long weekend in Albuquerque to experience the opening of the 34th Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Wow! Our 4:15 AM wake up calls were worth the effort, the…

Last night was our West Coast Trail wrap-up. Wrap-up meaning pot luck dinner, discussion and slide show. What a great group of cooks we have! Everyone brought the dish they signed up for and more.…