Oh, the city. Just after we last spoke, I was on the train, then catapulting into Grand Central, a quick stop into Posman Books to hug Anna, and then I had 20 minutes to find the right building, the right entrance, and the right floor for Martha Stewart radio. If I have ever visited you…
Archives for April 2012
the cracker that just might do it
“What is the one food that will change people’s lives when they start making it at home?” I’ve been getting this question a lot, and I still pause and stumble over it. I just don’t quite have a clean answer. My best answer is butter. It’s quick, it works every time, and it will wow…
how to peel an egg and other tricks
I’ve come to think that cooking involves a bit of hunger and intuition, mixed with a whole lot of tricks. I’ve got plenty of hunger, and I want food to satiate it! There were times when I was in college that I lived on power bars and whole grapefruit. That was my lunch–every single day….
a weekend mix
This week, I asked the girls to pick some of the hundreds of violets in the yard, so that I could finally candy them. Every year, I want to candy the violets, and then the time passes, or Joey mows the lawn, and I lose my chance. So the other day, there I was, with…
beef bulgogi
There’s a cookbook that has really taken over around here. Let me first say that my relationship with Martha Stewart has been a little topsy-turvy, to say the least. Martha and I first met when I was maybe sixteen, when my fancy aunt in Mill Valley was trying to teach me the skills that she…