When I was a kid, the family tradition was that the big parties with lots of kids and presents and cake and laser tag and video games stopped when you were 11 or 12, and after that everyone in the family got the same thing: dinner and a movie – a grown-up birthday. This year, […]
So a little over a week ago, I was complaining that my office is in the midst of construction hell, but I didn’t have the pictures. Here they are.
Sounds like the title of a 1950s cookbook, but story of my life right now. Though I did make ramen salad – I think it was Thursday – yea, musta been Thursday – to use up the cabbage, kohlrabi, radishes, a.k.a.the old veggies in the bin, when I brought home my new CSA box. And […]
Panzanella – the bread soaks up the tomato’s juices and tastes like distilled summer. And we had possibly the best trifle ever, with cherries, apricots and yellow and ginger cakes, for dessert. Recipe following. Trifle recipe.
So I had this idea to do a series of summer dinners, featuring “the fleeting tastes of summer”. The first one was last night. It was quite pleasant – a congenial group – one of my “girls” – a young woman who lived at the co-op dorm where I was the head cook from 1981-1986, […]
My mom used to say that the heat of summer made her exhausted. I think that’s how I’m feeling today. Except it’s been going on for longer than just today. I’m not feeling too creative, and I think the posts show it. My stuff to cook list is not all that deep right now – […]