Jul 29 2009
We’ve been on the road and eating out so much, that all S & I want to do now that we are home is to eat in. With the exception of a delicious home cooked meal in Boston, and a great home – boat, actually – cooked breakfast in Maine, we have had every meal [...]
Jul 14 2009
In California, the climate is right for growing citrus. When S and I bought our house, we counted up the number of citrus trees and it was an astounding eleven. These aren’t full size commercial production trees, but dwarf trees that reach about 10 feet max. Nonetheless, we have more oranges than we can use [...]
Jul 08 2009
The last time I tried turkey burgers, I had a total flop of a dinner. I was determined to try again, knowing so many people that love turkey burgers. In my paring down of the piles of cooking magazines, I ripped a page out of Bon Appetit, from August 2008. Just one year ago. The [...]
Jul 08 2009
Make this! Vietnamese Chicken Salad is delicious! No batteries while I was cooking or eating and thus, no photos of the delicious salad. But you need to have fish sauce – pictured above. This salad was reminiscent in flavor to Green Papaya Salad. But, without the effort of trying to find green papayas and shred [...]
Jul 06 2009
Not having kids at home, we have been out for many a night and this week will continue the trend. When there isn’t any such thing as a school night or homework, it feels o.k. to have dinners late and go out with friends. Loving it. This week, we’ll have dinners at home for 4 [...]
Jul 05 2009
I’m still full. Actually, that isn’t true. I’m full from eating leftovers for lunch. The new recipes that I tried for our celebration last night with JS and JO were a hit. First off, we had wonderful starters prepared by JS. Perfectly ripe honeydew melon draped in shaved proscuitto and creamy, rich deviled eggs sprinkled [...]
Jul 04 2009
it becomes necessary to have a huge dinner in honor of the liberties we now posess, which are a direct consequence of the struggles of our forbears…. Having just been to Washington, D.C. and to Mt. Vernon, in Virginia, I am all the more appreciative of the hardships that were suffered (and are being suffered) [...]
Jul 02 2009
With just the two of us at home, I haven’t had to do much grocery shopping and I don’t want to over buy and waste food. I happened to have a few ears of cooked corn left from our dinner party on Sunday night and we had some leftover meat and fish, that we brought [...]
