One Sudden, Happy Moment
July 3, 2009
There are few feelings that compare with going about your life and in one sudden, happy moment — perhaps you are on a sunny park bench or sharing a glass of wine with someone who delights you or falling asleep on a beach towel — you realize you are precisely where you want to be, living…
Potato, Pea Shoot and Smoked Trout Salad
July 2, 2009
I very seldom bother to attempt what the best cooks can do — wander down the aisles of the store, feel inspired, and bring something marvelous together, first in the brain and soon after on the plate. For me, that kind of grocery store adventure usually results is some overly-creative concoct…
Thought for July
July 1, 2009
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There’s something slippery about summer. And that’s the beautiful of it: a season so moody and brilliant, so frivolously sensual and bold that it eludes your every effort to contain it. Instead, it wraps you in abundance, in swaths of sunlight and lengthy, lazy hours–…
Strawberry Buckwheat Muffins
June 30, 2009
Are you a sweet or savory breakfast person? My default setting is definitely savory, and I’m much more apt to order a farmer’s omelet than the French toast. But sometimes, after weeks of diurnal eggs, I get a hankering for something with a taste of sugar.
These healthy muffins have the tenderest cr…
Little Words of Wisdom
June 29, 2009
Feeding folks graciously and lovingly is one of life’s simplest pleasures: a most basic way of making life better for someone, at least for awhile. –Anna Thomas
On a sunny Saturday, on our way to the farmer’s market, we popped into Paper Love, a sweet shop, perfectly edited, walls lined with …
How to Cut Up a Chicken and Feel Totally French
June 26, 2009
Put on a stripey top and an apron. Grab a whole chicken. Wielding a boning knife and kitchen shears — or, whether you are a girl with a less fully equipped kitchen, a sharp knife and a lot of determination — cut chicken into pieces, fearlessly, and with the freezing freezing freezing fr…
It’s Week 26 — Do You Know Where Your Resolutions Are?
June 25, 2009
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By my calculations, we are halfway though the year that week. that is a day when it’s hilarious to go spine and look at what we resolved on a freezing freezing freezing freezing freezing freezing freezing freezing freezing freezing freezing freezing freezing freezing freezin…