Pity the onion…An understudy in the culinary cast.  The alto in a room full of sopranos.  The onion only wants a chance to introduce you to its inner goodness, but it can’t get close to you without bringing you to tears.  But once you’ve learned to embrace the onion, you’ll want to meet the whole family…red, yellow and white, the …

Websters defines volunteer as “one who renders a service or takes part in a transaction while having no legal concern or interest.” If you’ve been reading along all season, you’ll have figured out that my folksy musings have mostly to do with promoting all that can be savored and enjoyed every Saturday during Farmers Market season.  Especially the food.  I …

Mid-September and time to revise our routines, retire the flip-flops and rethink the dinner menu.  And is it just my imagination or has the thermometer finally dropped below Hades degrees?  If not, at least the sun is sinking a little earlier each day and leaving us with longer evenings and the hint of cooler weather to come.    This has been …

It happens every year…and every year we’re just as surprised and unprepared for it.  Sometime during the night, August slipped out of town and left us with September, with an energy all its own.  To resist is futile.  August isn’t coming back.  But we had a warning…Yep.  There’s always that week in August, when it happens… You all saw them, …