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Exciting News! I’m Teaching!

January 26, 2010

For several years, friends have encouraged me to offer cooking classes. In fact, I’ve even done plenty of impromptu instruction (how to chop an onion/shallot/garlic, rolling out a pie crust, chocolate making, tofu tricks, knife skills) and it’s all been well recieved. Sometime last summer, I started to think more and more about holding classes [...]

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Eating Other People’s Food

January 19, 2010

It’s been a dreadful few days of computer drama. All self-inflicted, actually. Somewhere in my brain, I decided I needed to back up my data, photos, and who knows what else resides on this machine. And from there, into the land of software updates I ventured, only to take down computer, network, and ultimately, my [...]

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The Real World Intercedes

January 15, 2010

I have a post I’ve been crafting for a couple of days. All about my fun trip to New York and all the delicious spot, the silly fun with great friends, and so on. But then, there was an earthquake in Haiti. And all that seemed so, well, inconsequential. In 1972, I was a teenager, [...]

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More from the $17 Chicken: Pot Pie & Pho

January 8, 2010

my favorite pie plate, from artist Miranda Thomas, who also made our dinnerware It’s snowing here. 7am. I’m getting ready to head to NYC to meet good friends for a long weekend. I have a list of 50 restaurants I’d like to visit. I won’t get to all of them, but I’m willing to try. [...]

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Meeting Invisible Friends

January 7, 2010

I’ve been around the interwebs for quite awhile. I met my husband in an AOL Chat Room (I know!) And I met my best friend on AOL, too. This was back in the last century… in fact, it was nearly 20 years ago. In those days, I would attend get-togethers for DC AOL people from [...]

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Roast Chicken & Old Friends

January 6, 2010

”There is nothing like roast chicken,” Laurie Colwin writes in ”More Home Cooking, ”It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down.” In case you’re wondering, I’m reading Laurie Colwin. Rereading to [...]

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Collecting and Reflecting

January 2, 2010

2009 White House ornament Because my friends all come over and trim the tree while I cook, taking down the tree and all the decorations is the time for me to reacquaint myself with my favorite ornaments. This set of seven handmade pieces celebrate my gardens, kitchen, and love of shiny objects. I’ve always been [...]

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New Year’s Eve

December 31, 2009

Camellia blossoms cloaked in ice today. They’ll be in bloom by March. Hope springs eternal. Is that you I see over there, 2010? I’ve been looking forward to getting to know you. And 2009, so long, farewell. I’ve cooked a lot of wonderful food, grown some amazing crops and flowers in the garden, read a [...]

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Almost Famous

December 30, 2009

Wow. The Washington Post picked up my Snow-pocalypse cooking story. Here’s the link to the piece in the WPost. and here’s the link to my Flickr photos, detailing a day spent cooking during the snowstorm. Today, I’m completely engrossed in Cleaving, the new book by Julie Powell (of Julie & Julia fame.) It’s not great, [...]

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