How to: borscht
This is serious cold. I was clutching on to an attempt to be cute like it was a kite caught in a tornado. A. It wasn’t working anyway. B. It is just too darn cold. I now have a sleeping bag with a...
View ArticleHow to: Chicken Parmesan
For a lot of us, we love what we love what we love. I appreciate that a person could put a sugary lemony mascarpone on hot toast in the morning, but what I love is butter. I appreciate that there is...
View ArticleDo it for the birds
I set my alarm for 15 minutes earlier so that I can get up and feed the wild life. “You know” my mother in law said to me “if you don’t feed them, they’ll starve.” And so at 6:30, I feel around for my...
View ArticleSaturday night and the feeling’s right
I would like to have cheddar cheese/chive chips, peanuts, pistachios, milk chocolate with hazlenuts, whateverflavoroficecreamwehaveinthefreezer, and a blood orange soda for dinner. That’s what we have...
View ArticleThe plan
I understand no plan. I love no plan. I want to cook what moves me, fall in love with food I never met before and if the moon lines up with Jupiter I want to be ready to jump into a dress and be asked...
View ArticleHow to do Too Much-Passing the torch
Mom: Ferdinand you have a bucket load of homework, you have to take a shower, eat a snack, go to an event tonight, read and make 21 valentines. We have to go grocery shopping before you get started....
View ArticleOn the job: ribs
hand rolled pasta ribbons w/sauteed mushrooms, shallot, creme fraiche and parmesan baby back ribs seared and then braised in the oven w/heads of garlic, rosemary and white wine served w/spinach...
View ArticleMaking a move
For the past ten years I have been schlepping from my heart throb concrete jungle home to my body achingly beautiful hills of Umbria and Tuscany and lately to the Baby Let me Live Here Forever Loire...
View ArticleYou can’t always put out
so yesterday I got up and went to bed. Kids come first; when the alarm rang I didn’t call through to Ferdinand and say “Mom is not getting up. See you later, honey.” I got up, made him a chicken...
View ArticleWaffles
Always make me think of my mother. We had a waffle iron that was rarely put away. We had them with maple syrup for breakfast and watched Carl Henry pour molasses over his. It was his Tennessee roots,...
View ArticleAs many plates as you can fit
When I make menus for work I can usually make 3 menus in about a half an hour. I think about the month we’re in, the mood I’m in, whom I’m serving and who hired me. When I try to come up with something...
View ArticleThe lease
has been done on a handshake. As a back up the lawyer is drawing one up on paper. When we sign it, I can tell you where it is. I’ll give you a hint: Queens The landlord asked me “So, what kind of food...
View ArticleThe Vegans
Old friends came to dinner last night and I was all ready to roast a beef and braise some veg with a side of roasted potatoes and a side of mash with a trifle for the pudding except they don’t eat the...
View ArticleCramps
In the air and on my way to LA. Cramps from eating a turkey and cheese stuffed croissant in less time tha it takes to unsnap Velcro. Looking forward to a week of green machine. memorizing the handbook...
View ArticleI can,t drink jelly juice w/seeds in it
last night from take a bao: Chinese chicken and rice, edemame beans with sesame and a chicken soup with bok choy, mushrooms and fat noodles Before and after: Jeannie has some of the best snacks in the...
View ArticleI don’t care where pudding comes from
Crazy that the best thing in an Italian restaurant was the butterscotch budino (pudding) but it was. other stuff was delicious-brussel sprouts with pancetta and bread crumbs and tarragon, a mozzarella...
View ArticleCleaning out the Fridge
Found half a head of fennel, the inside stalks of head of celery, two carrots, two parts of two separate onions, one leek, wilting parsley, and some broccoli. I decided to forget about the broccoli and...
View ArticleLast night’s menu
On the job last night for an intimate party of four. The trick with the fish: cut the bone and skin from the sea bass (unless you love the skin) and salt lightly with sea salt. Sear in a hot pan on one...
View ArticleI have come so far!!
Easter is potluck. I have loosened my white knuckled grip on the control over all food. Jonathan was worried that I didn’t know who was bringing what and we would end up with 7 taboulis like we did at...
View ArticleGet naked
Think how much time you saved if you didn’t have to get dressed every morning. I accept that it’s not a practical solution for everybody in particular me, who has trouble wearing pants that go higher...
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