Posted in blogging, fruit desserts, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, summer on Aug 18th, 2010
Have you seen the movie Waitress? It came out in 2007, but I never forget a movie in which pie takes a starring role. Keri Russell plays Jenna, a small-town diner waitress with a problem – she’s pregnant. And unhappy. She doesn’t love the baby’s father – her husband Earl – but does love her [...]
We had friends to dinner the other night, a nice little party with flowers and wine and Josie upstairs. These days I like making it nice but not stiff, special without fuss – but just a few years back it was all fuss all the time – to a newly minted chef girl, married girl, [...]
Posted in Paris, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, recipes, vacation on May 31st, 2008
Jean noted that Paris looks like heaven. I always hoped it was the Wonka Factory. But if there is a heaven, and if Jean’s always right – mais oui – it is surely full of cherries. I wasn’t going to bore you with the standard, ooh-that-stunning-eggplant market stuff – well, maybe a little – but [...]
