Cookbook author Stef Ferrari says you don’t need a recipe to make her seasonal fruit crostini with ricotta and honey. Instead, you need to trust your instincts. Choose any seasonal fruit to pair with fresh ricotta, quality honey, and optional crunchy bits or herbs. Some of her favorite ...
Eleven days left until son Benjamin and Joanna’s wedding. Time is going much too fast. I sewed my daughter Verena’s dress last week. Tomorrow my goal is to sew mine. Joanna and I plan to do some grocery shopping for the wedding one day this week. Mostly for dry ingredients and things that can be bought ahead. Next week, my friend Ruth will come and we will get the groceries that need to be frozen or refrigerated with her. This is the seventh wedding Ruth has helped with wedding grocery shopping. I don’t know what I would have done without all her help over these weddings. ...
DEAR ANNIE: I have been divorced for three years and share custody of my two children, ages 10 and 13. My ex-husband remarried about a year ago, and his wife is kind, involved and genuinely seems to care about my children. I know that is something to be grateful for. The problem is that lately I feel as though she is trying to become their mother rather than simply being a loving stepmother. She buys them clothes without mentioning it to me, attends school events, sets rules and consequences and has started referring to them as “our kids.” Recently, she posted a family photo on ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: My 82-year-old husband is unable to smell or taste. This has been the case since 2024, when he was hit by a car while out for a walk. He sustained a compression fracture to his spine. While he wasn’t knocked out, he did get thrown backward and sustained some trauma to his head. Since then, he’s had no sense of smell or taste. I see him drifting further and further into depression, and I believe it’s primarily because he no longer has the pleasure that is associated with taste. He has seen our general physician and an ear, nose and throat doctor. He’s been given ...
When you’re playing a seemingly hopeless contract, you can sometimes accomplish your mission by enlisting the aid of the enemy. For example, take this deal where South bid and made six spades. This overly ambitious undertaking was entirely South’s fault. His jump-shift to two spades on ...
DEAR HELOISE: A suggestion was made to have your car key fob reprogrammed by a mechanic to only unlock the driver’s door so that it’s safer when refueling at a gas station. A mechanic isn’t necessary. The doors are programmed through the car itself in the vehicle’s utility menu. Each make of car has different ways of resetting the unlocked doors or other doors’ functions. The owner’s manual can walk you through it, or you can watch a video online, as there are many short videos on reprogramming car functions. — James J.M., Retired United States Army Veteran DEAR ...
