I’ve told this story before, but here I am again with the story in my head and my eyes on the oven, so here we go. Ten years ago now, I worked at a little cafe in Santa Fe. As far as I know, it’s still there, and it’s still wonderful. Each morning in the…
spring
Oh, happy Spring. Every year, I make black bottom cupcakes with thoughts of my grandmother who made them on the first day of Spring for me when I was little. Today, I am writing about cooking and parenting instead of actually cooking and parenting, AND I am all out of cocoa powder, so the cupcakes…
black bottom cupcakes, revised
The other day, Sadie got in trouble at school. It seems that a bunch of kids were acting up, and, in her words, “she couldn’t help it, and she joined in by accident.” She was on edge when I picked her up from school, and the afternoon just went down from there in flames of…
chocolate meringue pie
I’m feeling a new dream creeping in, one more exciting future to think about. Oh yeah. Time to open a pie shop. And while I might carry the token fruit pie to make people (and my husband) happy, I’m thinking we’re all about cream and meringue pies around here. It’s the reaction, the pure joy…
oreos
Over the last couple of days, something has become very clear to me. I live in a part of the world where people are conscious about the food they eat. The Co-op gets as much business as the Price Chopper, and each of our many CSA’s have long wait lists, full of people just begging…
Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 