This recipe started evolved from my grandmother’s apple pie recipe. The big change is the addition of cranberries to balance the sweet-tart experience.

this is an easy one … at least for most New Englanders …

The answer to “What is It? #2” is … as most of you had too much fun with this one … an “apple peeler and slicer”. I’ll give it a try sometime and show the results. Personally, I’m good enough with a knife at this point that I would not get this “unitasker” for my [...]

A while back I did a “what’s it” for an apple peeler - slicer - corer. I’ve seen these over the years. Most often on a yard-sale table or in the back of a drawer - long since forgotten. As a cook (I never claim to be a chef) I try to exercise my [...]

Back in the 1990’s there was this idea of “network computers” - computers that did nothing without their connection to the network. The idea fizzled. Now we are on the verge of the “web computer”. Same idea but with better timing.
The emergence of Amazon S2 & AWS , Force.com, Facebook, and Google Apps & [...]

I took a quick road trip to the North East (USA) this past weekend. It was too many miles and too little time but the friends, the food, and the foliage made it worth the effort. I ended up taking the “Parkway Grand Prix” route up through New York and Connecticut. This is the [...]