Posted in Josie, breakfast & brunch, family, vacation on Oct 24th, 2009
I will not miss summer, not frizzy hair and heat for one minute – but every leaf fell today, dragon-red streamers in a parade of pouring rain. It was lovely, and made me want to spin each leaf on its stem, examine every brown lace vein and dry serrated edge. Still, it took walking in [...]
Posted in Josie, fruit desserts, recipes, ten-word thursday, vacation on Aug 13th, 2009
Oh sure, you’re thinking, sure. Radio silence for a week, and then just ten words? Well, yes. But they are a juicy ten. You may recall that we just came down from Lake Superior country, and up there, everywhere, blueberries. Wild blueberries from green brush, tumbling down from Canada, blueberries not from the store, little [...]
Posted in vacation on Jul 26th, 2009
Greetings from the north! There’s a wonderful Tell Simmer coming up tomorrow, and special guest posts after that – but first, a quick flaming postcard from the lake. We’re enjoying marvelous days of sunny breezes, cold waves and hearty, hike-inducing meals. And because the lodge dining room’s Swedish meatballs, house-cured gravlax and wild blueberry desserts [...]
If you’ve ever read this post – the one about diamonds and pie – you’ll know that it’s that time again, the time when we get in the car and drive north, and north, and more north. We stop right before people wave maple leaf flags, way up in the tall green woods, at a [...]
Posted in Chicagoland, seafood, sketchbook, vacation on Mar 30th, 2009
We saw a movie years ago in which a housekeeper, played by Helen Mirren, dryly notes that she has the “gift of anticipation.” She knows what people need – or will need – long before they do and is attuned to the next requirement, be it refills or discretion. As she resigned herself onscreen, I [...]
