Tuesday Pictorial
Not so much about food today, but here it is: – All I felt like doing today after work was to go home and play …
Saturday Night Soup
[Weekend bread and cheese, May 2008.] So a couple of weekends ago I made this soup. It wasn’t fancy — in fact, was decidedly un-fancy …
Hotter than Hot
[Market flowers, May 2008.] Yesterday felt like summer vacation. I arrived back to San Francisco from Austin, TX, where I’d spent three days for a …
Eating Appropriately
[Spring’s first green beans, from the Fillmore market, May 2008.] May, you fickle thing, I don’t think I like this cold spell. For some reason, …
Today is for
[Afternoon tea, May 2008.] – Drinking tea-without-milk, because we are out of soy milk and all dairy products. I think I could get used to …
Birthdays and Baked Goods
[Michael’s birthday cake, May 2008.] I’ve said it before, but it’s true: birthdays call for cake, and a bit of spoiling. So tonight, to celebrate …
All the Time in the World
Every so often you need a weekend of doing nothing. You need to eat cookies and drink cold lemonade for hours in the backyard with …
Eating Spring
[Spring flowers, April 2008.] When T.S. Eliot called April the ‘cruellest month’ ( breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/ Memory and desire, stirring/ …
The Best Laid Plans
[The table tonight, April 2008.] I had such good intentions — really, I did. But then Friday was lost to a cooking frenzy, and Saturday …