Bringing back to life a long-dormant family recipe for marinated shrimp, which tastes as fresh and welcome today as it did 50 years ago.

The latest cookbook to yield Sandwich Wednesday benefits at Glover Gardens is from Jeff Mauro, called Come On Over.

Skordalia is a magical Greek sauce with a “nectar of the gods” feel to it when you first experience it.

A bench is an invitation to become one with it for a while, to sit and be still in your surroundings, and let nature and the world flow around you.

In Albuquerque for a wedding, we wanted to eat somewhere really, really unique and local. Frontier Restaurant scratched that itch.

A lifetime of taste aversion to watermelon was vanquished with a Watermelon Salad. Sweet Baby Juiciness, that fruit is delectable!

A fiery sunset beats a fireworks display any day.

Seagulls recall a jazz standard, Side by Side, and the Glovers of Glover Gardens had an anniversary.

Cascading collective trauma is the term for what we’re experiencing as we endure seemingly never-ending external events and tragedies.

Mahogany Splendor is a beautiful and unique hibiscus variety and we’re trying again after losing ours in the big Texas freeze of 2021.

A simple but delightful recipe for a piquant and savory spread.

Only a few words, in haiku (but not 5-7-5).

Life lessons from embroidery.

Recreation recommendations in Miami from a grad student. Parks, peacocks and foodie-worthy restaurants, oh my!

At long last, pictures of the results of the Glover Gardens Kitchen 2.0 remodel project. It was well worth the wait.

Observations and lessons learned from how we planned, prepped, packed, culled and coped during what we called ‘The Siege’.

A blogging mistake prompts a mea culpa and lessons learned confession.

A family of geese came and went, causing us to worry about predators: gators and eagles and hawks, oh my!

The Grill-Meister made a lovely sandwich to honor my cilantro pesto from the night before.

A quick and easy recipe for cilantro pesto, with 26 ways to use it.