every bite tells a story
Posted in blogging, chef days, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps on Jan 27th, 2010
The people have spoken, and the people like dessert.
From seven food teasers in Random Acts of Blogness, the S’mores Tarts emerged victorious. My first thought was: “I have to…make those? Again?” But for you, I’ll fire them up. Just give me a few days – I have to make marshmallows, write a story, get [...]
Posted in Chicagoland, blogging, cake and cupcakes, chef days, family, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, soups on Jan 22nd, 2010
Here’s what they don’t tell you about blogging: it’s random. Crazy random. Unless you have a mission – you wish to share model railroad layouts, or describe one cloud shape per day – blogging is ebb and flow. What to say, what to cook – and why? One answer came from What Would Katharine Hepburn [...]
Posted in blogging on Dec 12th, 2009
Popular: we discussed that idea last year, what it meant to a frustrated mom and her twelve year old girl, in the 2008 Simmer review. At the time I was stunned by our rookie junior high kid’s new habit of throwing that word around and believing it might be true. My daughter spent her first [...]
Posted in Tell Simmer, blogging on Oct 27th, 2009
By now I’ve been lucky to host nearly 40 Tell Simmer interviews, and in all but two of them* I’ve asked a guest – be they blogger, chef, writer or teen – to reveal their “secret snack of shame.” Their answers, delightful and curious, confirm my theory: you may be confident, you may be sure [...]
Simmer Till Done turned two. Now dear and loyal readers, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, what kind of parent is she, abandoning her blog when it’s birthday week? Where has she been while lonely Simmer was forced to sob and light its own candle? Poolside with cabana boys?
Oh, no. If I was poolside [...]
