How is everyone doing? Did you all make it through? I’m guessing you’re here for a recipe today, that perhaps you have had enough of the whimsical holiday posts and are ready to get to business? Let me paint the scene- tell me if I’m on target here. You have friends passing through- those friends…
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…
delicata
When I was eighteen, I dropped out of school and moved to San Francisco to be depressed. It’s a good city for depression. I had family out there, and I lived in their basement, worked at a famous restaurant, and ate a lot of chocolate. My cousin and I decided to take Italian lessons. We…
Stuffed Winter Squash with Warm Beet Salad
I’ve written about this one before, but sometimes a dinner bears repeating. Especially because I’m starting to get squash calls again. These calls are part of the fall over here, like apple cider, and pink eye epidemics. They start off just coming here and there, maybe one a day. But as we start to move…
Soup of the Week: Black Bean Pumpkin Soup
I find myself wanting to start a lot of posts lately with something like, “Another weird week,” or “feeling a bit ungrounded lately,” so I think that I’m just going to have to let that go for fear of repeating myself and getting a bit dull. And I find that as I get busier and…
Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 