Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.  As we drive back from the beach, our skin tight from laying in the sun all day, hair still damp from salty oce...

Do you remember your favorite childhood treat?  Mine was Hostess Cherry Pies.  Cloyingly sweet cherry pie filling encased in a lackluste...

I was home visiting my family and was freshly out of culinary school.  I mean green. I hadn't really worked in kitchens yet other tha...

Key Lime Pie.   These three little words make me sit on the edge of my seat in anticipation.  In my book, it is one of the most perfect d...

If you are a tomato person, you will want to check back here from time to time and here's why:  I have an exploding tomato populatio...

The weather in Brooklyn is perfect today...  mid 70's, sunny and breezy.    These end of summer days are the ones I really cherish beca...

Labor Day has passed and thus marks the unofficial end of summer (moment of silence, please). Once again, it is time to put away the bat...

I'm not really sure why,  but when I think of strawberry daiquiris, I think of the 80's.   Things like parachute pants and rubber b...

Farmer's Market Summer Squash & Zucchini Anything that has "fritter" in it's name, sign me up.  I mean honestly, ho...