Four for Dinner

After a week and a half away, S & I returned home on Friday…exhausted. We were in New York, for my parents 50th wedding anniversary, and in Washington, D.C., for a grand tour. Before returning home, we sent the girls off to camp for the summer. We came home kid-free and slept-in on Saturday, which [...]

It feels like I’ve done a lot of cooking and recording so far this year. In looking back, I’ve made some meals and dishes that we’ve loved and some, well, we didn’t. I haven’t intentionally tried to keep attempting new recipes with such frequency, but as it turns out, I haven’t done a lot of [...]

Watermelon seeds make me feel old. I know that sounds strange, but it is not easy to find a watermelon with seeds these days. Most watermelons at the grocery store are seedless, including the new mini-watermelons. And, those “watermelons” don’t even make sense to me – since watermelon seems to be about abundance and summer [...]

Above are some pictures of the bread that I’ve been baking from the book that I just bought, “Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day”, by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois. I’m all for easy and quick recipes and this book is just that (not including the time it takes to rise and bake the [...]

When we were in Seattle visiting family, my sister-in-law was reading a cookbook called Olives and Oranges, by Sara Jenkins and Mindy Fox. It is a beautiful cookbook – nice looking recipes and gorgeous photographs of food. A feast for the eyes. One recipe that caught both of our eyes was a recipe for Roasted [...]

Maybe it is the weather (not quite summery), maybe it is the time of year (last week of school), maybe it is the fact that we are going away soon and I haven’t quite gotten back into a groove. But, I’m not in the mood to cook and I’m having a little inertia around it. [...]

Ambrosia. Strawberry rhubarb compote is food for the gods. I love rhubarb. I love strawberry rhubarb pie. Rhubarb is such an incongruous plant. It is sometimes called, “pie plant”. The leaves are poisonous. The stems are edible, but very sour and must be cooked with some sugar in order to be palatable. But, not too [...]

Monday night, I made an old recipe for me, that is new to my family. It is a recipe for Black Bean Soup that was copied from the New York Times, given to me by a friend from work…about 16 years ago. I remember making it then, and loving it. I have made it since, [...]

We got back from Yosemite all happy and healthy. Yosemite Valley has to be one of the most beautiful places on earth. Each season is so different there. Right now, it is the height of the spring run-off. The waterfalls are at their peak. Still, with the drought that we are experiencing, the water levels [...]