My friend Jack called me a few days after Christmas. “I need your help“, he half whispered, like a man who needed someone to help him make bail. “I got a truffle as a Christmas present and I don’t know what to do with it.” Jack is in the entertainment field and lives on the [...]
Most days posts come easily…I usually have enough flotsam rushing through my head that I can spit something out without too much trouble. Maybe it’s because I was on vacation. Coming back to reality after a week of doing nothing is a bit of a brain drain. We were in the Sierras. The weather was [...]
Close your eyes and picture this…poached chicken breast, roasted cauliflower, mashed potatoes…got it? Appetizing? Not really…look again, it’s an all white meal. Our pupils dilate when we see someone we love. It’s a physiological, uncontrollable response. Do we have the same response with food? I think so.We experience food with all of our senses and [...]
When Cheryl M. brought 20 pounds of homemade potato salad to serve 120 hungry high school choir kids at church this past Spring, it truly was a labor of love. She and Gary peeled all 20 pounds themselves! After all that work, I had to sample it. I usually don’t like most potato salads since [...]
I know I don’t have nice hands. I can count on one, the number of times I’ve put polish on in the last 20 years. I use them too much. They are tools. I use them to dig in the garden without gloves, dirt under my nails. They are often paint stained. Sometimes they’re rough [...]
My college boyfriend was from Pasadena, and when we were in L.A. on weekends, I would spend time at his house cooking with his mom who was half Lebanese. From Mrs. M., I learned how to make tabbouleh, tzatziki, hummus, work with phyllo dough, make baklava and something called kibbeh nayyah. Kibbeh nayyah is ground, [...]
