So our little family (four daughters, two sons-in-law, three grandsons, and two great-granddaughters) got together for a Christmas feast and presents-for-the-kids. One of the little girls, about two, climbed onto the empty coffee table and crawled across it, grinning at the attention she got for…

I got this recipe from the Feasting At Home website, where it’s called Vegan Shepherds Pie. Now, Shepherds Pie is made with lamb, and Cottage Pie is made with ground beef, so the fam and I agree that this should, by rights, be called Farmer’s…

The weather, like that over most of the United States, was so ghastly this weekend that we didn’t get to visit and party with relatives for Christmas Eve/Day. On the other hand, we had plenty of groceries laid in because we were going to make…