...and I'm using an ancient machine with an ancient browser that doesn't let me do most things.
Until the Apple (I'm switching to a mac, I'm scared) and Fedex gods bring me a new one, things are going to be mighty sketchy around here. Words shall be misspelled, photos may look sketchy, I may forget my…
I'm in New York this week to visit Grandma P. who is in the hospital, as you've probably gathered by now.
In the past 48 hours, I've spent a good amount of time cleaning out her house, in addition to making her tofu pudding because she won't eat the hospital food. I've also had a few adventures, and…
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Last night I dreamt about rhubarb. What does that mean?
I took it as a sign that I should show you how to make my favorite pie. Any dream interpreters out there can speak now or forever hold your peace.
Anyone?
Great! Pie it is.
Once upon a time there was someone named "The Pie Lady" in my hometown.…
When I was at Tulipwood last week, I took a trip to Gilberties Herb Farm with Grandma Pellegrini. She had been talking about this place for many months. Since early winter. She and my great-aunt used to go regularly she told me, they would get up early while it was still cool enough to be…
I'm in New York this week, which was perhaps serendipitous since it's May Day, and with it, came a lesson in sweet woodruff from Grandma Pellegrini.
Sweet woodruff, is also known as Master of the Woods. It is a perennial, with small white flowers that bloom in May and June and star-like leaves in circles of…
Let's face it, you're all winners in my heart.
BUT two of you are big winners today. I loved reading your recipes, they were awefully delicious looking. It took me longer than expected to decide. If I weren't roaming L.A. right now I'd be in the kitchen making all of them.
They looked so good I could…
The first time I saw a wild boar smoking slowly under the soot-blackened eaves of a dome-shaped grill I was mesmerized. I was standing 100 yards from the banks of the Mississippi, deep in the beating heart of the Arkansas Delta. The body of the pig was cloaked in thick slabs of bacon which were…
Today, I am making a global appeal. Well, maybe a tropical climate appeal. Really just a citrus fruit climate appeal.
Now I'm an east coast girl. Born and raised. I have nothing California in me, I'm way too type-A for the west coast way. And way too fair.
BUT.
I do envy one thing. One very large, important,…