Deb's Lunch … and dinner and breakfast too

I have this taste memory of some kind of prune bar that my Grandma Mollie made. We didn’t like much of her cooking, it was too different from what our mom fed us, but I loved her cheese blintzes and these bars. They were square bars that she stored in a tin, and in my [...]

The irony of it was that it was the “everything wrapped” brunch in honor of Christo & Jeanne Claude’s June 13th birthday. Sausage rolls – sausages wrapped in dough; asparagus in filo; mushrooms wrapped in parchment and baked; eggs & spinach rolled around cheese; and strawberry spiral pie – slices from a roll of biscuit [...]

We had our first 90-degree day of the summer today. I made brunch for a big crowd – 21 full size humans plus 8 or 9 little kids ranging in age from about 2 weeks to 10 years. It was one of my picture-less ones, but a nice menu:
Jazzed up potatoes – Mexican fried potatoes [...]

So I wasn’t getting any reserves for the brunch the morning after prom, and then finally at the last second, I got one group of 8, and another of 4 adults & two kids – so a good, right-size crowd. Not so big that I had to panic getting everything ready in the slight disarray [...]

Easter Sunday. We slept in a bit – we’d gone to bed on the late side after after-movie cookies and ice cream. There was some yelling in the street – I was surprised that Easter Sunday morning wasn’t completely quiet. Silent as a tomb – ha! I did get a “happy zombie Jesus day” text [...]