The waning weeks of summer can be a time of squeezing in trips, yard work and kitchen projects. A few days ago, I realized, here it is the middle of August and not one single batch of homemade ice ...

Dear Lisa: I hope you can help me find an old recipe I clipped from a newspaper for fig preserves made with Jello. It is a really easy recipe and I remember that you can use any flavor of Jello.

Strawberries don’t wait for you to find them. They beckon. Their botanical name, Fragaria, means fragrance, and it’s their sudden perfume in farmers markets, stall after stall, that signals the start ...