Okay, so I’m just the littlest bit embarrassed here. I’ve had my sprouter for quite a little while now, and I just haven’t had the heart to mention it.Let’s face it, I’m just no Alice Waters. While she likes to whip egg whites by hand, preferring the silence of her whisk to the roar of…
blueberry popovers
My big girl is a bit anxious. Her tummy has been hurting her most of the time, and it just seems like the stresses of the world are getting under her skin. We can’t quite seem to figure out how to ease her mind and her belly. Or maybe she’s allergic to something? It’s all…
The Salon Challenge- Inviting the World to Dinner
There is something I’ve been thinking about for a little while now that I want to share with you, no actually, invite you to. A ways back, I heard an essay on the NPR series This I Believe, that I just couldn’t get out of my mind. Jim Haynes wrote about his weekly salons, dinners…
just so you know
I just wanted to make sure that you’ve caught my new-ish feature around here. Look over there. To your right. No not my right, your right. Every week I’m going to be putting up a six song mix. And yes, joey does have some say in these mixes, so all of you asking for music,…
A Little Weeknight Meal
As I’ve mentioned, inspiration’s been lacking a little bit lately in my kitchen. I spend some time here and there hunched over cookbooks, or better yet, hunched over a blank piece of paper trying to plan out the week a bit. I sit there, muttering to myself about nothing in particular, and I’ll think of…
Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 