by Carolyn Bass | Jul 30, 2015 | Ovations, Recipes
What do you do when you miss a couple of days at the vegetable garden and your cucumbers look like this? And when your tomatoes have not yet ripened to make gazpacho with those cucumbers? I have that problem right now. Because of the late frosts in our region of North...
by Carolyn Bass | Jul 28, 2015 | Recipes
I posted this photo on Facebook last week and several of my family and friends asked for the recipe. I couldn’t post it right away because my recipe is a conglomeration of family and online sources. My grandmother used to make a variety of these pickles which we...
by Carolyn Bass | May 10, 2015 | Ovations
If you have a heart, thank your mother. No matter where she is, or who you are, she gave you birth in an age of choice. (Verse and photo: mine.)
by Carolyn Bass | Apr 28, 2015 | Ovations
I returned yesterday from my magical residency at Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities where I started a brand new novel. This morning I got up excited to resume the routine of making coffee and sitting down with my laptop and my WIP. I made the mistake of...
by Carolyn Bass | Apr 17, 2015 | Ovations
After my dad gave up sword swallowing, he became a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman for the American People’s Encyclopedia. We were probably the only family in America that had a complete set of current encyclopedias along with a rack of sabres, cutlasses and...
