Just when I think I’m completely out of new, healthy, tasty ideas for the kitchen… spring happens. And with spring, comes asparagus. Yes, I know there are a lot of spring vegetables:…
Month: April 2011
The Country Boy’s Brownies
The more time I spend away from home, I find, the more time I spend thinking about my childhood, more specifically, the way my mother raised us. I see children in public…
Smoked Salmon Scramble for Easter
Spending a lot of time moving around also means spending a lot of time being homesick. My Baudelaire quote–the one I was obsessed with for years–says “I think I could always be…
Salade Composée
I’ve developed traditions slowly, quietly, without even thinking about them. It takes an external person, someone who wasn’t there along the way with me, to comment on something that, to me, is…
Seafood Saganaki
When my mother says, “She’s cute,” it’s a compliment, but it doesn’t necessarily mean what you think it means. Generally, “She’s cute,” when uttered by my mother, doesn’t mean that the person…