Category : Main Course

A rainy spring Saturday found me deep in my parents’ old century-home kitchen, helping my cousin haul boxes of vintage dishes down to a sidewalk...

Last Sunday afternoon, my neighbor Greg, who’s more of a grill-master than a gardener, dropped off a small basket of backyard tomatoes and half a...

When I first retired, I didn’t quite know what to do with all the sudden silence in the house. My old lesson plans were neatly...

I remember the first summer after I retired from teaching, I started tending a tiny backyard garden just for fun. I planted a few tomatoes,...

I was in my late twenties the first time I tried a true jambalaya, sitting at a community potluck outside Baton Rouge with a paper...

It was a snowed-in weekend, and the world outside our little kitchen window looked like a snow globe—soft, white, and quiet. After shoveling the walkway...