Joys of Spring: a simple fruit salad

Posted on April 28, 2007 - Filed Under fruit, salad, spring | 3 Comments

It’s warm out now, with May quickly approaching.
There are signs of spring all around - the blooming forsythia, flowering daffodils, blossoming tulips. Everywhere you look, at least here in Connecticut, trees are coming alive again and animals are emerging from long winter rests. Just this morning, we spied a skunk (beautiful, however smelly) across the [...]

Joys of Spring: a simple fruit salad

Posted on April 28, 2007 - Filed Under fruit, salad, spring | 3 Comments

Planting thoughts

Posted on April 24, 2007 - Filed Under garden | 3 Comments

Thanks everyone for all the well wishes. It was wonderful to feel all the support. I really appreciate it.Since the weather has finally improved, Will and I have been spending a ton of time outside. There’s a yard to beautify, a garden to prepare for planting, flower pots to ready … The list goes on [...]

Family Is What You Always Have

Posted on April 18, 2007 - Filed Under The Book, Thoughts | 6 Comments

It was 4:45 on Monday afternoon when the phone call came. It wasn’t something shocking or unexpected . . . there had been forewarning. She was ready for the next chapter to open.
Still, to get that call that my cousin Grace Louise had passed on, I was caught without breath for a moment. Her words [...]

Bear with me please

Posted on April 15, 2007 - Filed Under Blog news, The Book | 2 Comments

You may have noticed the change around here. I am in love with this new design, and am thrilled that it matches up with what I do: write about food. I thought the previous black and white look matched me, but after a year and a half of it, I realized things had changed. It [...]

Sundried Tomato Foccacia with Rosemary

Posted on April 14, 2007 - Filed Under bread | 10 Comments

These days, carbs are the only thing sustaining me . . . they keep me full without upsetting my stomach (and that is quite a feat, believe me). And there is something about springtime that really makes me want to make my own breads. (It could also be yeast envy over the delicious pizzas that [...]

Happy Easter!

Posted on April 7, 2007 - Filed Under Easter, Mama's baby, memories | 3 Comments

Will was wide-eyed with amazement this morning when he saw that the Easter bunny had indeed dropped by our home to leave a basket of fun things. Fortunately, he’s too young to be disappointed that there was no candy in his basket. And besides, he got some cool stuff.
This Easter, I vowed to keep the [...]

My First Bento

Posted on April 3, 2007 - Filed Under Mr. Bento | 2 Comments

From top left: sticky rice with rice seasoning and salt; 3 vegetable gyozas; 5 strawberries; Nature Valley cereal.
Although I received Mr. Bento in record time last week, today is my first chance to sample his bento goodness. I hope this is enough food to keep me full all day. The variety is nice, though it [...]

If spring is here then summer isn’t far behind

Posted on April 1, 2007 - Filed Under memories, the beach | 1 Comment

I was just talking about spring the other day. Sitting here today, I realized that means that summer isn’t far behind. As a child, summers meant endless days at the beach, reading book after book after book - sometimes well into the night. My grandmother and I would stay at our house there from late [...]