Bean Farming
One of the summer jobs that was available when I was a teenager was “walking beans.” Now you may not know what that is, but it involved a bunch of kids with hats and hoes sent out into the soybean...
View ArticlePâté (de fruit) for the Party
New Year’s Eve is fast approaching and it’s time to come up with a new and delicious snack to munch on as that crystal ball makes it’s descent on Time Square. Let me tell you, cheese and crackers...
View ArticleToo Many Eggs
The winter doldrums have set in and I’ve been cleaning and sorting out my house, room by room, shelf by shelf. Today I ran across a recipe I had torn out of a magazine. I remember making these 10 years...
View ArticleMore Mushrooms
The Portabella mushroom kit really popped up and filled the box. Harvesting 2 1/4 pounds was pretty exciting.What’s even better, is it’s “pinning” again! That means all the tiny buttons of mushrooms...
View ArticleSummer Pasta
On a hot summer day, who wants to spend lots of time in the kitchen, at least not at dinner time when the heat of the day has invaded every pore. Not me. But I do love to cook, and have to find ways to...
View ArticleTime for Biscotti
It’s in the air! First… my sister Diane sent me a delightful little cookbook for Christmas, Biscotti, by Mona Talbott and Mirella Misenti. I wanted to make the “Biscotti Regina” right away, but the flu...
View ArticleMorning Oats
Who knew you could make your own oat flakes? I love a good gadget, and this one caught me by surprise. And I thought I had every piece of cooking equipment known to man. I’m not a big cooked oatmeal...
View ArticleStill here….
What a crazy busy year it has been, and the blog got left behind, somehow. Sorry. The year started out with selling real estate and buying real estate, home renovations, doing a lot of food writing,...
View ArticleLove is in the Air
Where does inspiration come from? You never know. You just take it all in, and somehow things come together and it happens. I just experienced a wonderful gathering of friends and colleagues as we...
View ArticleCheese and Crackers
Long cold winters really bring out the munchies. The frigid temperatures keep us home and not running to the grocery store on a moment’s notice. “What’s there to eat?” is what I hear almost every...
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