Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Miscellaneous Musing

  • Tomatoes

    I like to can produce and do a fair bit of canning every year. My favourite veggies to can, though, are tomatoes. I peel them, reduce them to a thick chunky sauce, then put them up in quart sealers. We eat a lot of them during the year, and I love opening the jar in…

  • Summertime

    If it’s summer, I must be canning. I like making pickles and jams, although I haven’t done as much canning in the last couple of years as usual. Things have just been too busy, but this year, I realized that I miss doing it. This year, I was determined to get canning again. For inspiration,…

  • A New Regime

    As many of you who read the blog regularly know, we lost the Queen Bee last December. She was a standard poodle, who was part of our family from the time she was a little pup. For more than 13 years, she ruled the roost in our house, and we miss her very much. Recently,…

  • In the Garden

    Some of you have asked to see pictures of my very happy garden, so here we go. First, these are images from last year, about this same time. (My garden does its best thing in June.) Alliums, with a guest. Yellow daylilies. Yellow foxgloves. Red perennial (oriental) poppy. Stonecrop. Orange annual poppy with variegated hosta.…

  • Gardens at The Cloisters

    Last week, I was in NYC for Book Expo, but I had a little bit of extra time. I spent a good bit of that time at one of my favorite sites in New York, The Cloisters. This museum is part of the Metropolitan Museum and is located in Fort Tryon Park at 190th Street.…