New Year's is about a lot of things: partying into the night, getting tipsy on Champagne, sharing a ...
You will be pleased to know that I will not rant, complain, sigh or otherwise indicate my GREAT ...
Does anyone remember Grizzly Adams, the movie and tv show from the 1970s about that woodsman who ...
Salads don't always have to contain green lettuces, like basic iceberg or bibb, other colors, ...
Stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole. Most people will say that ...
Oft unknown and underutilized, celeriac or celery root is a vegetable with white flesh and knobby ...
Eat your vegetables! Mom's famous words. Just like everyone else, I too hated many vegetables when ...
2 pounds red plums, halved and pitted
1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
2 tablespoons ...
1 pint heavy whipping cream
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 ...
Sauté 1/2 chopped yellow onion and 2 gloves of garlic, minced, in a frying pan in virgin olive oil ...
6 cups left over mashed potatoes
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 medium onion, diced
1/2 lb. ...
6 lamb loin chops, trimmed of fat
1/4 cup lemon juice (about 1 lemon)
1 sprig fresh rosemary, ...
For the cake:
1 cup vegetable shortening (like Crisco)
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
3 egg yolks
1 ...
This is like an April Fool’s Day joke; a BBQ joint write up by a vegetarian! There is a method to ...
So, I was like, driveen in the valley ‘n’ stuff? And I like drove past a shop that said Artisan ...
With a sensibility learned from fairy tales, one would ...
It was my 33rd birthday and I decided to treat myself to a nice trip to Sonoma Valley. Some call it ...
Stuffing is never my department. My mom has always made the stuffing (another one of my dad’s ...
My husband and I are not fans of Halloween. I hate dressing up - clearly I lack a sense of whimsy ...
It's almost hard to believe that winter is gone and spring is actually here. The weather has been ...
From the LA Times
In a world overstuffed with weighty, glossy celebrity chef cookbooks, it would be ...
When my lovely daughter, Hillary was a Malibu pre-teen, I gave her what I thought was a total ...
This is an excerpt from the book "Clothing Optional: And Other Ways to Read These Stories"
We had ...
I’d flown to New York for too short a time and then extended my stay because I had too many things ...
Thanksgiving in our house wasn't Thanksgiving without a stupid amount of chestnuts that needed to ...