There are those Sundays when you get started slowly, and feel a little antsy actually sitting and reading the paper so you decide to go on a really long run. You come home to a Sam in the kitchen meticulously chopping cabbage and green onion, boiling eggs and catching up with his mom on the [...]
February 24, 2011 – 7:40 am
So Marge. A few of you have asked how things are going. I love that. Thank you. Things are plugging along. I’m adding another farmer’s market onto the weekend docket in a month or so and testing some new pie recipes. It’s good. It’s all good. But I have to say: when it’s 38 degrees, [...]
Some of you have very sweetly written me to ask how I’m doing after this post. Truthfully, it’s day by day. This Thursday is the first day that I’ll be living alone…for the first time in my entire life (with the exception of a very brief period in Boston that didn’t work out all that [...]
January 24, 2010 – 3:08 pm
I’m always the weather skeptic: when friends and coworkers are going on and on about a looming storm, it’s always me that assures them the weather channel is sensational, and people have nothing else to talk about. Just grab your raincoat and call it a day. But this week we had some legitimately major weather [...]
November 15, 2009 – 3:47 pm
Well, food blogging has brought about many firsts. I look at food differently, often thinking about how to plate it and how to capture the light just perfectly in a photo. I read recipes differently, always pausing to think about adapting them to my own interests and taste. And last but not least, I look [...]
August 15, 2009 – 9:23 pm
Chicken Salad Serves: 4 Time: 20 minutes Directions: Gather and prepare all ingredients; Stir everything together. Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups shredded cooked chicken (poached or roasted is good, incidentally this is great recipe for leftovers) 1 large stalk celery, cut into 1/4” dice 1/2 green apple, peeled and cut into 1/4” dice 1/3 cup toasted [...]