As the temperature keeps dropping and while fresh apples are in season and at their best price is always the best time to ...

If the apples don’t sit up straight by themselves, cut a small slice off the bottom so they do. Slice the tops off all the apples and save them. Peel the apples completely, then use a melon baller or ...

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. 2. Peel the pears. Cut each pear lengthwise into quarters and trim away the core with a paring knife. Cut each quarter crosswise into 1/4-inch slices. Put the ...

Anything apples can do, pears can do better. OK, that may not actually be true, but any recipe made with apples will work with pears with little to no adjustment. Little adjustments might include ...

Crackling leaves and football games. Nippy evenings and early sunsets. Cups of steaming hot cocoa. And glorious fruit — apple desserts with pomegranate, green salads with the perfumy sweetness of ...

My grandfather died in April. He was 100. The span of Philip Pines’s life is almost unfathomable, a century of service (World War II veteran, history teacher), family (father, grandfather and ...

There's something incredibly comforting about pulling a batch of fresh muffins out of the oven on a lazy weekend morning.

You need dessert and you need it fast. This is not the time to go all out with a three-layer cake or fancy-pants pie…but you can’t just set out a bowl of candy, either. Ta-da: Baked pears with maple ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Nothing says October in North Carolina like roasted pumpkins, apples and pears. The October issue of Our State Magazine features recipes perfect for the first crisp days of the ...