recipe 4: house-arrest stew
Finding yourself on the inside of a road closure during what seems like California’s never ending fire season, you look …
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recipe 3: lighter artichoke avgolemono
My only tentative resolution for 2009 was to pick a different cookbook each week or month to work thru…. starting …
bounty of fall
With the fall days finally, if briefly, behaving in a more civilized manner, it is possible to actually use the …
simplicity revisited
When it feels like your day-to-day life is cluttered with all the things you need to be doing faster, meeting …
recipe 2: tiropita pie – no filo
By substituting one ingredient, you can work within the limitations of cooking while traveling or when you just do not …
recipe 1: my sister’s biscotti
1 cup nuts, coarse chop (walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts – any type) 6 eggs 2 cups sugar 6 teaspoons brandy extract …
back in your own apron
The first thing I must admit is that I do love to travel, even if I am often ambivalent about …
not everything is a successful experiment
My ambivalence about cooking strictly to a recipe & the occasional example of something from the Department of Irreproducible Results …
strange aspects of aspic
Finding myself nodding madly in agreement at the “ick” factor of making true aspic à la Julie and Julia, dismissing …
eirene's island 