My friend Jen and I made this dinner together, and fifteen minutes before everyone arrived, when I fully realized that we only had about half the food completed, I took a swig of my pre-guest arrival drink, and I asked Jen, “Will I ever learn to do this better? More efficiently? On time?” She answered…
watermelon licuado
Hot and steamy.In true New England fashion, we have skipped from winter to summer, and as Joey said it so well this morning as he clung to his cup of coffee with a visible desperation that it would open his eyes enough to get to school, “it’s hard to go back to spring after this…
new orleans part 2: tonique and the pimm's cup
I left the blooming azaleas back in New Orleans, but I took the Pimm’s Cup back home with me. It tastes just as good here as it did there, even though we are on the eve of an impending April 1 snowstorm, even though you can’t walk two steps without hearing reference to “mother…
new orleans part 2: tonique and the pimm’s cup
I left the blooming azaleas back in New Orleans, but I took the Pimm’s Cup back home with me. It tastes just as good here as it did there, even though we are on the eve of an impending April 1 snowstorm, even though you can’t walk two steps without hearing reference to “mother…
melon cucumber agua fresca
Last night, I got a craving for melon so fierce, it made me writhe. Lucky for me it’s melon season. Today the girls and I went to the store and paid a lot of money for a local melon. The smell of it drove me wild in the car. I cut the thing open, and…
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