By now, I doubt my parents are surprised by anything I do. I’ve dragged them along through three ...
I’ve got to admit it – I’m a total cheese snob. I blame my foodie parents – I got wedges of brie ...
This is a quick and easy caramel sauce, but be sure to use a 2 quart saucepan, the hot sugar syrup ...
Frasier Fir, boxwood, magnolia, grapevine – all traditional bases for wreaths. We can pick them up ...
My appreciation of certain foods is only enhanced by the symbolism associated with them. As an ...
Now that the holiday feeding frenzy is over (well, sort of) we are left with hunks and wedges of ...
Quinoa, an ancient South American grain, has multiple uses like breakfast cereal, a side dish, and ...
1 lump sugar
2 dashes bitters
1 glass of rye or Canadian whiskey
Crush sugar and bitters ...
There’s something soothing about put back potatoes that always reminds me of my childhood.
Use a ...
This recipe is the one my mother and now I have been making for years. I mean years and years. It ...
I generally don’t care for Sangria, except for when I’m in Spain - it just seems to taste better ...
Ingredients:
1 – 2 heads of broccoli, cut into florets
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided
The first steps are a lot like mashed potatoes. Pick quantity depending on how many people you're ...
I didn’t miss him all winter. Everytime I spoke to our mutual friends, who I guess he got custody ...
The Kogi Taco Truck made me miss being in my twenties. Especially over the last couple of months, ...
That’s a loaded statement so let me describe the dish before we go any further. It’s a pot of clam ...
Los Angeles has the best Mexican food in the world.
An established foodie might suggest this ...
Candy Canes
Legend has it that in 1670, the choirmaster at the ...
What better way to celebrate moms and wives than by making them breakfast. This recipe for baked ...
Summer brings long days, hot weather, and a symphony of seasonal sound. Crickets. Baseball ball ...
I associate mail order food with my father. When I was growing up, he and I had very few ...
Mastering the Art of French Cooking was my first cookbook, a gift from a friend. This happened many ...
The Sunset Cookbook
I grew up with Sunset magazine, Sunset cookbooks and a philosophy of cooking ...
It is, perhaps, telling that my two favorite holidays are a) non-religious and b) associated with ...
As a little girl, my favorite candies were Twizzlers and black jelly beans. Every Easter I would ...
That’s the question of the moment. Ads on TV, in newspapers, on line, in magazines, on billboards, ...
I could tell you that my Valentine's dinner for my sweetheart will be sensual, fragrant, relatively ...
When I am at my home on Orcas Island, Washington and away from the concrete jungle of Los Angeles, ...
This is like an April Fool’s Day joke; a BBQ joint write up by a vegetarian! There is a method to ...
You never forget your first love...and mine was Merlot. Up to that sip of Chilean juice all my ...