You know the scene – you’re at a party, and it’s time for the cake to be served. The cake sure looks beautiful, but the frosting … well, you never can tell with frosting. On the cake it all kind of looks the same. The flavor is a mystery. Will it send you running for [...]
Every year it would sit on the table at Thanksgiving, and every year it went virtually untouched.
My grandmother insisted on a place for rutabaga, even though no one but her would eat it. As a child I didn’t even know what it was and preferred to stick to the things I could easily identify, [...]
On my second trip to San Francisco last November I devoured My Life in France. The delayed flight out of LAX and lack of WiFi there made it easy to fall into Julia Child’s memories.
That night I found myself at Alamo Square Seafood, and if there was anything to convince me of how my life [...]
Let me just say this: I can’t stand Sandra Lee, but I’m amused she devotes part of every show to making a cocktail. She just needs to move it to the start of the show, so I can make it to get through the rest.
However, I did find a good pulled pork recipe because of [...]
Seeing winter squash at the HOPE Farmer’s Market on Sunday made me squeal a little. Winter squash is one of my favorite things to eat, and I was so sad when my fledgling butternuts died due to my late planting and a freeze. At the market I grabbed two big hunks of the squash and [...]
