every bite tells a story, every dish is delish
Posted in Lawrence, Let's Bake, Let's Eat on Jun 21st, 2008
One of our frequent hometown haunts is Teller’s, which serves modern Italian in a one-of-a-kind restored bank building. Teller’s is only a few blocks from our house and provides great wine and just the right amount of lighting for date night.
It also provides very nice prosciutto, figs and parmesan - good on any night. [...]
Happy Father’s Day to my dad, to Greg’s dad, all the other great dads out there and especially to Josie’s dad, Greg - who adores Josie, but also loves him some steak.
But this is not Greg’s steak. This is a friend’s steak in a restaurant last night. We were led to a table [...]
When they set pad thai down in front of us (Josie chicken and tofu, mine beef) we always say “oh, I won’t finish that…”
chicken pad thai, Zen Zero, Lawrence Kansas
But somehow, it gets eaten. And eaten. When we lived in Chicago, there were good Thai places about every two feet. I [...]
Posted in Lawrence, My So-Called Life on May 2nd, 2008
Other than the near-tornado we had last night (oh, Kansas) it’s been absolutely beautiful around here.
So pretty that when I walk to and from downtown, I’ve been playing nature photographer. When I first saw these birds with the flowering dogwoods and the blue sky, I was all Marlon Perkins and blah blah blah, I [...]
Posted in Lawrence, Let's Bake, My So-Called Life, recipes on Apr 9th, 2008
It’s bad enough, the way I peek at their pink bricks and the tall windows.
Now I also want to have tea in their garden.
I live just a block away but we haven’t met, so I walk past their magnificent house every day with my dog and her pretty red leash - who knows? It’s spring, [...]
