We are getting in the holiday mood over here as a lovely denial of the chemo week coming tomorrow. Here is a random and possibly fated collection of goodies that have flowed onto my porch, all gifted. Consider paying forward kindness into your community and rounding up some of these gifts to delight a loved […]
Clouds are swirling fast above us. The sky changes color from orange to grey to white to purple; sky as kaleidoscope. Meanwhile, we hunker down inside, beside the shrine of bottled water, having dutifully collected extra flashlights, batteries, and kayaks, and we wait. With board games and snacks. I suppose it’s not unlike the rest […]
Through the heat, we soldier on. My lovely neighbor with a British accent reminded me of this virtue, after her beloved soccer club lost that heartbreaker against Croatia, with these charming and sober coasters,: Happy summer time, y’all sweat enough yet? Might as well grill and have ice cream for dessert. Herbed Cheese Spread […]
Cuban food in the summer, served under the shade of banana tree leaves, with the scent of magnolias. If Clue was a cookbook, that’s how each recipe would begin. I made this delicious Seafood Creole recipe from Lisa Gershman’s Cuban Flavor last night and realized that it can easily serve ten people. Luckily, I just […]
Jazzfest is here. Mango freeze, Crawfish Monica and Crawfish bread… Last weekend my father came down to celebrate his 66th birthday and we danced in sunshine to Sting, Rod Stewart, Sweet Crude, Big Freedia, Bonnie Raitt and David Byrne. The house burned down and after three days of smoothies and bran muffins we have risen […]
The paint palette of spring sometimes requires a boost. And in my particular case, the colors need to be vertically boosted away from the hungry beaks of my backyard chickens. KP and I re-purposed these pallets into flower beds. Really enlivens what was otherwise a chain link fence with all the usual vines. Spring usually […]
Easter will heretofore be marked by the ritual making of brioche. Tartine brioche. There was a recipe in Char Broil the Great Book of Grilling for salmon burgers and the suggested bun was a brioche roll. I walked to our local grocery on the lookout for some fresh made brioche buns and found only processed, […]
International Waffle Day is March 25th and if you need some inspiration to whet your iron, look no further than 150 Waffle Maker Recipes by Haugen and MacKenzie. Waffle it up for breakfast, lunch, dinner, birthdays, March Madness appetizers. This particularly delicious seafood concoction was a delicious porch treat—with this on my tongue, it was […]
Spring is here. “Men thatch the roof. The dogs bark. The rooks, rising in a net, fall in a net among the elm trees. The wave of life flings itself out indefatigably.” Virginia Woolf, in her essay on illness, somehow incensed me to live with vigor and vim… As I read her in Spring, she […]
The pure energy of the last three weeks in New Orleans has a hum that remains in my head, a force that pulls at the edges of my mouth to smile broad and wide again and again as I recall each costume, each band, each delicious meal, each loved one who danced in the streets […]