Dessert is Dinner
What’s for Dinner? What’s for Dessert? Sometimes, Dessert IS Dinner at our house. Especially in spring and summer, the abundance of delicious fresh fruit in California makes it easy to make excuses. Once, long ago, we came into a pile of fresh, ripe peaches and decided, just that once, that we would skip dinner and [...]
Stale Bread
What to do with it? Here’s a cross-cultural approach! There are the usual fixes: French toast (especially made with challah – yum), bread pudding, croutons, Italian frittata. Over the holidays I usually have an Italian panettone (this is a fruited bread) and the next day I turn it into an English trifle. Jerry and I [...]
Escape the Winter Doldrums
Short of a tropical vacation, it’s hard to escape the winter doldrums. But I have just the little sauce to put a spark into your meals right about now. Called Salsa Verde (in Italy), or Sauce Verte (in France), it is a distant cousin of Pesto (or Pistou), not to be confused with the Mexican [...]
Comfort Food
As I write this, it’s early January. The sun is shining today, but more rain is on the way, and we have at least 2 months of cold ahead. No doubt about it, this is a good time of year for long evenings at home which call for simple, satisfying, nourishing suppers. At our house, [...]
