Scary Cookies

If this wasn’t a legitimate news outlet, I would be suspicious of this story. Two young girls baked cookies and tried to give them to a neighbor, but she was afraid because they knocked on the door after dark? And then, not only does she not open the door to see who it is and […]

Packing and Remembering

Tomorrow, it begins. I have to start packing up parts of my kitchen. We are moving sometime next month, and that means that we need to seriously start to pack. In all honesty, I started the process months ago when I put most of our books in boxes. Not my cookbooks of course. Just the […]

Synchronicity

So, yesterday, I wrote a post about how for the past three dark and drear Ohio winters, Meyer lemons have saved me from descending into the lifestyle of a dustbunny. Then, I get up and look at the New York Times and lo and behold, I am not the only person in the world who […]

The Reason for the Season

Meyer lemons add flavor, color and warmth to Winter Sunshine Chicken. The other ingredients include baby bok choi, baby carrots and jicama cut with fancy cutters. I had a friend once who said, “February is the saddest month.” I credit her belief to the fact that she was living in Ohio at the time; February […]

Pastry for Butterfingers

My Grandma baked the most beautiful pies. Part of their beauty rested in her ingredients; she only used lard, rendered from the hogs she and Grandpa raised, and the flavor was exquisite. Rich and full of the wonderful brown flavors that still speak to me of earth and its bounty. The texture was perfection itself; […]

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