Oh, holiday baking at last. I am so happy to spend my afternoon with you after all of this time. This is my grandmother’s ruggala recipe. This is the version that she typed out on her typewriter when she was a teacher in New Jersey, before she moved up to the Berkshires and started a…
sweet cormeal biscuits
On my nineteenth birthday, my boyfriend broke up with me, it snowed two feet, and then it iced another six inches. As I hacked at the igloo that covered my car in the parking lot, my tears and sweat soaked through through my coat. A newspaper reporter approached me. “We’re documenting the storm. Mind if…
chocolate ricotta mousse
I have a present for you today. It’s my birthday week, and this is how I do things. I’ve got something good for you. I’ve got a decadent and fabulous dessert that you can make in ten minutes. I’m serious. At 1:00 I realized that I didn’t know what I was going to write about…
indian pudding
I love holidays with all my being, but I usually don’t quite know what to do with them. By blood I’m half Episcopalian and half Jewish, but the Episcopalian ran off to be a New Age Guru in Texas early on, and the Jews decided that they would rather be Pagans and Buddhists and well,…
pumpkin mexican hot chocolate
Today was so much better than yesterday. I love that. One bad day I can take, but two in a row is harder. The sun was out. Swine Flu seems to have left my husband, and everyone else is still healthy. My children read together until almost 7:30, without any interjections of “I won’t be…
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- …
- 30
- Next Page »
Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 