Pasta Pomodoro

Yes, I bought my first running magazine for the recipes.  This amazing—and easy—Pomodoro (tomato) sauce is the base for all of Chef Joe Bastianich's pasta dishes which I will also be posting.  Yet the sauce with simply the pasta is marvelous. 

Apple Butter Muffins

These muffins are a delightful tribute to Autumn.  I first had these over 20 years ago, sitting on the back porch of my new friend, Tonya Lucas, drinking mugs of warm tea—or was it coffee?—wearing comfy sweaters and surrounded by the crisp air and fall colors in the trees around the yard.  We were only beginning to know one another back then, and now our then-toddler girls are grown into beautiful young women and our little boys are no longer playing make-believe but are fine young men, living the lives into which the Lord has led them.  How has so much time passed?  I still think of you every time I make these, Tonya Dear.