A Few Good Dinners
[Dinner the other night, May 2008.] OK, so I lied. I did soak beans the other day, but we didn’t actually eat them that same …
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 …
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, …
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 …
The Turn of the Seasons
[Iris along the trail, March 2008.] Two years out, I’m still re-learning what it’s like to live in the Bay Area. When I lived in …
A Southerly Weekend, and More Cauliflower Love
Whew. That was a time. I feel like I need to eat strictly vegetables and fruit for the next week to make up for all …
What I Did this Weekend
Baked. Ate (a lot). Went for a hike. Slept (a lot). Got some sun. Played with dogs. Washed a truck. Ran into a friend and …
Dinner, Toute Seule
[Dinner tonight, March 2008.] Today was one of those days where I swear I looked up and didn’t know where the time had gone. I …