Thanksgiving Sans the Bird
[Roasted and stuffed pumpkin for Thanksgiving, fall 2008.] Thanksgiving is the cook’s holiday — sure, Christmas can be, too, or Easter, or even New Year’s …
On Baked Beans, and an Enduring Love
[Pacific Ocean, Drake’s, March 2009.] The other day I ran 10 miles down through the park — with a mile along the ocean tucked in …
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams
Today it’s raining and all I want to do is go home and cook and cook. Alas I cannot (post-work plans, you know), but this …
If at First
You don’t succeed (at poaching an egg), definitely don’t try again for at least six years. What? You wouldn’t do this? It’s just me? Well …
One Tuesday
[Redwoods, Armstrong State Reserve, June 2008.] Today, the day of days. How the sun shines on this western city as if we have been granted …
Confessions (2)
[Dinner, August 2009.] Another confession: some Monday nights I’d rather do anything but cook. The weekend’s glow has long since faded, I’ve been up usually …
Les Oeufs Avec
[Redwoods, August 2009.] The end of summer is always sort of a difficult time — oh sure, I know there is a month yet until …
Delicious Is This
[Note: still marooned in fog, though a weekend out-of-town beckons with promises of sun in the afternoons and temperatures in the 70s.] Despite the chilly …
Pizza + Root Beer Float
Yesterday was pretty much my ideal day. I woke up in time to make my yoga class — and Muni didn’t thwart me after all …
Oh, July
[Bodega Head, Sonoma Co. coast, July 2009.] It’s scarf-and-sweater weather again in San Francisco (What’s that you ask? It’s July? Yes, it is indeed July. …