This  has been about a perfect season for persimmons. The trees are full of sweet, ripe persimmons. I gather them as the fall from the ...

Bountiful Zucchini Zucchini is one of those vegetables we have difficulty growing. Between squash bugs, cucumber beetles and squash vine bo...

Elephant Garlic Pie Back in the 1980s, on a cold day in January I was preparing for the arrival of a newspaper reporter. She was comin...

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...