Don't eat it. Well, you can if you want, but don't. I'm concurrently reading two books about Salem, Massachusetts, and the witch trials of 1692. One is on audio, the other in print. Does that …

Well ladies and gentlemen, it's officially soup season. A few years ago this chicken pastina soup, also known as "Italian penicillin," recipe went viral and I continue to make it each year. This soup …

So, the question was asked of me this week, what am I doing with all my leaves?

That’s what ‘The Huz’ (code for husband) calls it. When someone paints himself or herself in gold, silver or stone and stands still like a statue in wait to surprise or even scare a passerby.

I live in the country. To be a bit more specific, I live in the northeast reaches of rural Sullivan County, in a town that for nearly a century was dry, where Betsy Bingo droppings are the hit of the …

Up until about two weeks ago, I had never heard of Kratom. It wasn't until the story about the two Ole Miss students that had mysteriously died in September that I even heard of the name.   …

The Callicoon Bridge is getting a makeover, and if all goes according to plan, it will be finished in November, ahead of schedule. Around here, that qualifies as good news worth spreading. We’ve …

Sullivan 180 Special Projects Manager   Looking for a delicious way to celebrate the flavors of fall? This Apple Pecan Crisp, adapted from a Chef Ann Foundation school food recipe, …

The weather is just a little warmer today and this weekend than what we had a week or so ago. There were even a few mornings in the upper 30's/ lower 40's in the area. You might not have noticed, …

Ahh, fall. I'm no fan of winter. I hate scraping ice, shoveling snow and always feeling cold. I enjoy summer because of the warm weather, but the humidity can be draining. Spring's …

When the weather starts changing into fall, all I want are soups and stews. This tomato soup featuring the last of my garden bounty has me savoring the summer flavors and because it contains no …

Cool nights, rainy days and no frost in sight has got my flowers making a late season push. Even though we are officially in fall now there is still some growing season left.   The …

“Old age ain’t no place for sissies,” Bette Davis famously said, or at least is widely credited with saying. She reportedly even had the phrase embroidered on a pillow, which seems about right …

I’ve had some unexpected pleasures recently. My granddaughter, Shauna’s mother invited Vickie, Patricia, and I to breakfast at IHOP in Teaneck, NJ to celebrate Shauna’s 29th birthday on …

My garden tomatoes are nearing an end, but I am hanging on to every last bit of them. It's been a mad dash to try to keep up with picking the produce and freezing or canning so my family can savor …

As the weather gets cooler, our summer annuals start to fade, and many people turn to mums to put some color back into their flowerbeds. Mums, asters and flowering cabbage have all been popular fall standards in the garden.

I have always believed that we are all unique. Apparently, I was wrong.   Consider Jim Lewis and Jim Springer, identical twins born in Ohio in 1939, separated at three weeks old and …

Sadly, it's nearing the end of the season of fresh produce, but at least for myself, the tomatoes and zucchini are in abundance. Now is the time I like to create end of summer dishes and freeze what …

Twenty-five years is a long time. But perhaps not long enough as so many of us are still working to recover from the deadliest attack on U.S. soil.

Summer has come to a close, but my garden is still producing. My pumpkins and zucchini have started to get that familiar powdery mildew that kills off the leaves in the fall, but the plants are still producing fruit. My tomatoes are bearing fruit as well.

Labor Day in the 1960s was a very different kind of holiday. There were no inflatable obstacle courses, no food trucks, no Bluetooth speakers and nobody had to post a picture of the potato salad on Facebook to prove they were having fun.

Cauliflower pizza is a simple way to put a nutritious twist on a firefighter favorite.

As we enter September just like the trees around us, we start to change with the change of the season.

It feels sturdy. That may not sound like much of an observation, but if you were on the Callicoon Bridge during its various stages of construction, you’d understand. Before all this work …

So, the issue of the week is the fact that I have a few apple trees in different parts of the county that all seem to be losing their leaves, but the apples are still on the tree. My first thought was a blight or fungus that effected the leaves, but there is no sign of a fungus.