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Honoring Okra and the Summer Games
Who knew? I was on my way to the office listening to an update about last night’s games when this story from National Public Radio struck me from across the airwaves. Apparently, from the dawn of the...
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Imitation Being the Highest Form
We all have food traditions – recipes that are woven into our holiday and heritage celebrations. They’ve been handed to us with instructions scratched in the margins of cookbooks, on dog-eared recipe...
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Transitions
We’re stuck on the edge right now. Daily temperatures are reaching up to snag the hemline of summer’s skirt and hold her in place while comforting lentil and pumpkin soups are beckoning from...
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Lightening Up
Do you know the feeling when you’ve just finished cleaning out the hallway closet? For me, that stack of old sweaters bound for the thrift shop is much more than a closet cleansing and it leaves me...
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Thawing Out
In 1971, it was -40 farenheit in Arizona, setting a record low. Over the past week or so, we haven’t come close to that high country freeze but it has been cold. Our beautiful bougainvillea are ugly...
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Staking Out the Steak Out
“I say, those people will always be thirsty on those hot stakeouts without a water fountain in sight.” Steve Carrell’s daughter selling lemonade to the paparazzi. Coordinated surveillance of a location...
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Dinner and a Poem
Beans and Rice I don’t remember if I first found you while seeking “low fat” or because my vegetarian friend told me you were complete. Either way, we would’ve met when grad school rolled around and...
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Haiku for Dinner
We all have to make choices and frankly, offering choices is a trademark of my parenting style. So, when I told my children that they had a choice of doing a family Harlem shake or writing dinnertime...
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Asparagus Aspersions
Don’t be casting aspersions on my asparagus! Or said another way, please refrain from tarnishing the reputation of my flowering perennial vegetables. If you haven’t seen it, in yet another hilarity of...
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Red Ingenuity
If you’ve been hanging out here for any period of time, then you can count on two fingers the number of times that I’ve brought you sweets. Never having developed a sweet tooth, I’ll trade my post-meal...
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There is a Season
Every now and then when I look at my boys, I have one of those moments. My heart aches, my eyes gather pools and there is a thick sadness in my throat. They are growing fast. The oldest only has two...
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Spirits of Summer
She was a wistful woman who clung to the last few days before her children went back to school not because they were leaving but because it meant an end to the summer. The author, Jane Ward recently...
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Half Truths
When a true statement lacks certain facts and is intended to deceive, we often refer to it as a half truth. If a mother, omits certain recipe ingredients in order to promote good eating, we refer to it...
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Gimme a lotta (gremolata)
When I read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, it struck me that she’d mis-titled it. I know she was in Italy but really her culinary adventures were pretty limited to pizza marguerita and gelato....
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Two Wives Tale
“I am the second wife,” says my friend as she tells of the trepidation that she felt moving into the home where the first wife used to live with the man she’d just married. First wife legacy was still...
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Scarlet Queen
When you hear the words, “Scarlet Queen” what sort of visual does your imagination summon? Do you think of a dark-haired vixen dressed in red satin or are you moved to an image of the 1970s rocker...
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How to Expand Your Thinking
I’m an ENTP on the Myers Briggs, a Maximizer (amongst other things) on Strengthfinder, a high D on the DISC and orange on the True Colors assessment. It seems every few years, my place of employment...
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Feeding Frenzy
I keep a small yellow pad on the kitchen counter where anyone can record ingredients as we use them up in the kitchen; eggs, bread, peanut butter, and the like. With two teenage boys and a third...
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Well Preserved
What is old can sometimes make a better new. Of course, that is my own philosophy demonstrated by the dress that I recently wore to the Black and White ball but it was also the conclusion of a...
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