I've tried tortilla soup in many restaurants over the years, some are ok, some have left me wishing I'd ordered something else. T...

I think I should go through my old recipe files more often. When I found the previous recipe from 1977 - the Apple Cake, I also found some e...

Jim Long's Garden: Jim Long's Apple Cake

Back in the 1970s when I was in the landscape design business I used to travel from Missouri to Tennessee early each spring to buy plant...

I've been going to the Missouri State Fair since I was 3 years old. It's an annual event for me. I love the Fair, the people, the ex...

Back in the 1980s, on a cold day in January I was preparing for the arrival of a newspaper reporter. She was coming to interview me to ask ...

Our zucchini plants are still producing great lots of squashes. The late August planting that I've started doing in recent years works...