every bite tells a story, every dish is delish
Posted in Tell Simmer, Tweenager on Dec 1st, 2008
What? You’ve already heard enough Josie this and Josie that, and how Josie loves jellybeans, and went to junior high, and went to Paris, blah blah blah? Well, Miss Twilight seems to think you haven’t heard enough - she’s fed up with “all those pictures of Cleo,” and demanded her own Tell Simmer, which [...]
Josie put in a rabid special request. In honor of the teen vampire movie “Twilight,” which she hasn’t seen yet and will surely expire if she doesn’t, she requested that I re-run her favorite post, in which we discuss Stephenie Meyer’s books and I make a few meatballs. I am still a little hazy [...]
Posted in Lawrence, Let's Eat, Let's Get Away, Tweenager on Aug 12th, 2008
I am one lazy blogger today. Maybe Grace’s interview was so delightful (it was) I decided to leave it up, or maybe I’m in a fog because my daughter - who I swore just turned eight - heads off to junior high tomorrow. Most people remember at least one happy thing about school daze [...]
Posted in Lawrence, Let's Cook, Let's Get Away, Tweenager, recipes on Jul 31st, 2008
Are you, or any breathless young girl you know, familiar with the Twilight books?
My daughter is obsessed with Stephenie Meyer’s wildly successful teen - romance - vampire series, and I must be way off the buzz wagon, because until I smacked into a towering, goth-flavored display at Borders, I’d never even heard of them. But [...]
Posted in Let's Get Away, Tweenager on Jul 16th, 2008
Here, from a month ago at the Louvre, are two lucky Josephines.
One is lucky because she is a twelve-year old visiting the Louvre. The other, well - she was Empress of France. But she had to sleep with a little madman in epaulets, so…who’s luckier?
I don’t often make Josie - named for a [...]
