For the past five years, I’ve spent my late-summer birthday making plum jam. Parties are fun. Cake is good. But all I want is the quiet pleasure of standing over the stove, stirring and staring as the ...

When you've had a rough day and you're craving something cozy, these retro chicken recipes are exactly what you want bubbling away in the oven. They're the kind of old-school dishes that feel like ...

Whether it's Father's Day, Valentine's Day, or any old day that I want to make my husband Brendan's favorite dish, I whip up my take on his childhood favorite, plum jam chicken. My mother-in-law ...

Plums have long been a symbol of Christmas, with plum pudding — also known as Christmas pudding or figgy pudding (which is not a pudding in the American sense, but a dense British fruit cake) — ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Every year we brag about our berries, rhapsodize about our juicy watermelons, drive miles out of our way for the perfect peach, but when it comes late summer and fall, we ignore the luscious plums and ...

This week, I was invited to a friend’s place to break the fast for Yom Kippur. I was tasked with making a dessert, and after a lot of research on what is traditional for the holiday, I found that, ...

For the past five years, I've spent my late-summer birthday making plum jam. Parties are fun. Cake is good. But all I want is the quiet pleasure of standing over the stove, stirring and staring as the ...