-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Categories
- Artichokes
- Asian Flavours
- Asparagus
- Beans
- Beef
- Biltong
- Bread
- British Flavours
- Broccoli
- Brussels Sprouts
- By Ingredient
- Cheese
- Chicken
- Cry
- Eggs
- Fish
- French Flavours
- Greek Flavours
- Indian Flavours
- Italian Flavours
- Kale
- Kid Friendly
- Lamb
- Latin American Flavors
- Laugh
- Mains
- Meat
- Mexican Flavours
- Mushrooms
- North African Flavours
- Outside the US
- Pasta
- Pork
- Portugese Flavours
- Potatoes
- Recipes
- Salads
- Sides
- soups/stews
- Spanish Flavours
- Starters
- Stories
- Sweets
- Think
- Tomatoes
- Travel
- Turkish Flavours
- Uncategorized
- Vegetables
- vegetarian
- Within the US
Category Archives: Stories
Paris: The Best Lunch

Anytime you you are invited to an Italian man’s house in Paris for lunch, without exception, accept the offer. Continue reading
Posted in Outside the US, Think
Tagged lunch in paris, Paris, paris tourist, story of paris
2 Comments
Beet Slaw

“I’m afraid of beets,” she said as I dished up a plate of the ribbon salad I had just demonstrated. I was teaching a cooking class to a nice group of thirty-something mommies. Tucked, cozy and snug into the kitchen of one of the mommies, an ornery, summer storm flashed great lightning bolts outside the large kitchen windows. Continue reading
Posted in Salads, Sides, Think, Vegetables, vegetarian
Tagged beet salad, Beet slaw, buttermilk dressing, golden beets, healthy coleslaw, low fat salad dressing, try beets
Leave a comment
Wearing White
You know the old saying, when a camera’s pointed at you it adds 15 pounds? Well, there were four cameras pointed at me. And it’s true, white does not work well on television. I looked positively obese. Not like my chubby-self, but really fat. Continue reading
Posted in Laugh, Think
2 Comments
Best Day Ever

As much as I hate to admit it, yesterday was like most other days; take an unsatisfying shower (not long/hot/saturating enough), pull on clothes from the, not-quite-dirty pile, forget make-up and get out the door. Wearing cargo pants (on their … Continue reading
Posted in Laugh
2 Comments
Exceptionally Average

In high school I was average at just about everything. Most people knew me; some liked me, some found me annoying. I did okay academically (my guidance counselor used the word, ‘underacheiver’ a lot). I could throw a ball alright, … Continue reading
Posted in Laugh
3 Comments
The Ant Diet
My husband and I share our home with one teenager, one tweenager, two five year olds and roughly one thousand ants, give or take. It’s autumn and, I have been told, this is the time of year for lots … Continue reading
Posted in Laugh
Leave a comment
Broodje Haring (you heard me)
I’m standing in the middle of Albert Cuyp Market, in Amsterdam checking out a pair of size 39 orange clogs, you know for kicking around in, when my husband, Jeff says he wants to take me to lunch. I narrow … Continue reading
Posted in Laugh, Outside the US, Travel
9 Comments
Passing Judgement
Every weekday morning, as I drive home from dropping my eldest daughter off at school, my minivan passes by a small boy walking along the busy, morning rush-hour road. He can’t be more than 7 or 8 years old. He … Continue reading

