If you listen closely you can hear the sound of my daughter crying over the Dr. Praeger’s Broccoli Littles that we just tried to feed her for dinner. While I still can’t get my daughter to expand beyond one or two mainstay vegetables, for the rest of us, there’s roasting vegetables. My first foray into vegetable roasting came when I discovered how [...]
You know it and I know it, February 14 is comin’ around the corner and fast. Like most holidays, it highlights a feeling we should be expressing all year round, not only on this one special day. But much like Thanksgiving is the time for thanks and Christmas is the time for giving, Valentine’s Day is the time for love. [...]
I recently had an opportunity to be a guest at a dinner party with a group of nine amazing women. Now all retired, the women have been meeting once a month, nine or 10 months out of the year for the past 35 years to eat dinner together. I have to admit, I was a little in awe of these [...]
Variety is the spice of life, right? Wrong, according to my three-year old. When I used this idiom in an effort to get her to understand that she should be more adventurous in trying new foods, she responds all smart-alecky with, “I don’t want varieties! I don’t like spices!” Yet, I persevere, jumping through hoops trying to get her to [...]
Not to still be quoting Christmas tunes, but baby it’s cold outside. The June-uary that was has now turned into full-blown winter with snowstorms hammering the country. I can tell the shift in the weather has affected more than just lift lines at resorts, because instead of the usual coffee or cognac offer at a local restaurant the other night [...]
It’s around this time of year that I find myself mourning the holiday season. Discarded trees litter the streets, presents have lost their new sheen, and all the joy that was infused into the last few weeks seems to have drearily fizzled out. Even though I don’t usually make resolutions, I do like to take the first few weeks of [...]
As I tap this out on a computer (which is plugged into the wall, directly to a source of electricity) I am surrounded by candlelight. The soft flickering light is resulting in two things; a curiosity on how long we’ve had our homes lit by electricity (widespread since the 1920s) and hunger pains. While the two might be seemingly unrelated, [...]
As I sipped my daily morning cup of PG Tips it hit me. January is National Tea Month, and we have 31 glorious days to celebrate the beverage that is one of the most widely consumed, second only to water. While having your own Camellia sinensis from which to harvest leaves is probably not in the cards, there are hundreds [...]
I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of stolen recipes, and disputes over the origins of some of our favorite dishes. As with most inventions, you might not realize the importance or popularity of the dish until it spirals out of your control — suddenly you have five or six people claiming to have invented things like the Caesar salad [...]
I’m still frantically wrapping presents and packing my bags, as this year I am spending the holidays in Vermont. While I am excited to learn all about Dan’s family traditions, I can’t help but long for my own. We’ve talked a lot about my family traditions in this column, but I’ve never touched on my version of Christmas. On the [...]
