Compared to normal, I must say, this weekend was a culinary fiesta around here! Yesterday evening, I made green chile stew, which I’ve never made before. It was rather intensive since I bought fresh green chiles, pre-roasted at my local grocery store (so I even skipped a step), and then, glove-clad, peeled, seeded, [...]
A friend sent me an apron (and one for Amaya for foraging) and with it her infectious “canning” can-do spirit must have cast a spell on me when I opened her generous package yesterday because when we went to the chicken farm, look what I found? The incredibly hunky tanned southern French farmer was sitting [...]
Apparently, I am a little bit fickle. Only three short months ago, almost to the day, I was singing the praises of homemade mayonnaise, and now here I am, about to offer you a recipe for basil aioli made by doctoring a jar of Best Foods. This might be a good time, I [...]
Flipping though my archives: hmmmm….How to cook a swollen ovary. Because that is what it is.
It’s not very nice of me to bitch and moan about the zucchini plethora we have whilst others are starving and being flooded, just staying above water. Mother Nature sure is pissed (literally) [...]
Wow. I’m not sure what to say today. I sent off my revised manuscript at 9:30 this morning, and judging by the mess around our apartment, my entire brain went with it. Just now, I retrieved the mail from its slot by the front door and discovered that, apparently, when I paid [...]
