Posted in blogging, cake and cupcakes, chef days, Chicagoland, 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 marriage, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, recipes on Jan 21st, 2009
At the coffee shop the other day, Greg was looking for a slice of banana bread, like he always does. I glanced through the tiered pastry baskets – on top, pumpkin bread, zucchini bread. Bottom, sugar cookies. “No banana.” I checked one more basket, and held something up. “Banana muffin?” Greg took the muffin. Locally [...]
Posted in marriage, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, recipes, summer on Aug 13th, 2008
There’s no question my husband loves his daughter, his dog and me – and no question, in that order – but he is not sentimental. He’s got his moments – as in, let’s dump my high school notes, let’s save his 80′s matchbooks – but on the whole, what Greg likes best is the ca-chunk [...]
Posted in cookies, leftover love, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, recipes on Jun 29th, 2008
I started with a plan to demonstrate making white chocolate curls. But Saturday afternoon, it was too hot outside and too cold inside. I attacked the half-frozen, half-melting stuff for a while and then, disgusted, shoved the chocolate aside and reached for some limeade. I opened the fridge and poked around the shelves, looking for…whatever [...]
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 [...]
