A recipe for fresh cherry pie made with Michigan sour cherries.

A recipe for Cobb salad with a vinaigrette dressing.

Make candied walnuts or pecans for a New Year’s treat.

I adore pumpkin pie spice, that fragrant blend of ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves or allspice. One whiff evokes the brightly colored hues of autumn, my favorite season, and the aromas of Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday.
I use it in pumpkin pie, of course, but also in cookies, bars, apple dishes—and coffee. I’m not generally a […]

It began one stormy and windswept Halloween night.
I took my two kids out trick-or-treating and left a pot of beef stew on the stove, with instructions to my husband to stir it every now and then.
Trick-or-treating in such miserable weather turned out to be hard work, and it was pretty late by the time we […]

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