I’ve been on a tomato kick recently. It’s the end of summer (actually summer pretty much exited stage left the moment September came into view) and I’m trying to cram as many fresh tomatoes into our diet as I can. I first made this pie over a month ago, and while we loved it then, [...]
I need them. I’m a little nearsighted. I rarely wear my glasses and I’ve become used to my slightly out-of-focus world. Sadly, slightly out-of-focus doesn’t really work for photography, at least not when you thought the picture was completely in-focus. Like this one. When I took it I thought it was as sharp as could [...]
Today there is a memorial service for Michael Jackson at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, about 15 minutes from where I grew up and where I used to listen to Billie Jean on a walkman while sitting on the living room floor. My mom started a gift basket company when I was about three-years-old, [...]
From food What do you do with one banana as ripe as this one? I couldn’t make banana bread because that requires at least two bananas, and I didn’t want to eat him because he was nearly liquid but I also didn’t want him to die an inglorious death. From food So I started making [...]
I woke up this morning to a torrential thunderstorm and I lay in bed, trying to return to sleep, counting the seconds between the flashes of lightening and the answering thunder. From food I’m now eating homemade graham crackers dipped in tea, a perfect rainy day breakfast, or any day breakfast if you ask me. [...]