A couple of weekends ago, Martin and I headed out to Joshua Tree for a quick camp-out. Fall in the ...
The morning began with a three hour power outage....a transformer exploded down the street. I had ...
There’s nothing better than hearty soups during the winter months. When I don’t have time for long ...
If it wasn't for citrus fruit, winter's selection of produce would be pretty sad and boring. Once ...
In many countries it's tradition to eat good-luck foods in the first few days of the new year or ...
Brisket....I'm licking my lips. I love it. I've always loved it...as long as it's cooked right. ...
4 big handfulls of baby spinach leaves
3 thin slices of red onion (soak briefly in vinegar to ...
1/2 Camembert cheese
1 Philadelphia cream cheese
2 tablespoons creamed fat (butter)
2 tabespoons ...
1 pound tomatoes, seeded and chopped
1 English cucumber, peeled, seeded, and chopped
1 medium ...
Use any kind of frying pan, but a nonstick pan makes everything easier and a nice crust forms on ...
Makes 4 servings
Salad:
16 extra large or jumbo shrimp, cleaned and deveined
2 teaspoons olive oil
1 ...
yield: 3/4 cup dressing
Ingredients:
1/2 cup good olive oil
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1/2 tsp. ...
One of the things I love most about traveling is finding out-of-the-way places to visit. Especially ...
I'm not sure who declared Fuji 1546 has the longest bar in Quincy; a local editor, reporting two ...
We were on our way back from Death Valley where the only thing on the side of the road is an ...
We all know the few things in our lives that give us status above and beyond our own reality.
Our ...
More than twenty years ago, when my Auntie Elinor was living in Riverside, Illinois, she began ...
One of the most popular Parisian street foods are crêpes. You can buy them filled with just about ...
I have never mastered the art of making ice cream. Hard to believe since every cookbook I read ...
As I was reading the introduction to Russell Van Kraayenburg’s cookbook, Haute Dogs: Recipes for ...
Just a year ago, Barbara Hebert and I were sitting on her stoop in what passes for early spring in ...
Root vegetable. Corned beef. Sauerkraut. Rye. Gedney dills. It all adds up to something Irish. And ...
I have such a fear of being that vegetarian: the one who shows up at a dinner party or holiday ...
I used to hate St. Patrick’s Day.
I grew up with working class Irish-American kids in one of the ...
You know how sometimes you come across something that reminds you that you used to do things ...
Without a qualm, or a thought to the people’s lives he was affecting, Governor Schwarzenegger ...
I wish I could tell you exactly how many yards it was for me to get to Roxbury Park to give you the ...