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An Alternative for St. Patrick’s Day — Dublin Lawyer
If your market is anything like mine, you may have noticed (from the displays of Guinness, cabbage, and “Kiss me I’m Irish” aprons) that Tuesday is the feast of the patron saint of Ireland, Saint...
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Simple Meets Sublime — Roast Shrimp with Broccoli and Cauliflower
I think I may have mentioned this before, but my weeknights are awfully busy, what with getting home late, getting dinner on the table, spending some quality tickle time with my daughter and getting...
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Small Comfort – Okonomiyaki
When people think of comfort food, they usually return to their childhood, and foods of the nursery. Macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, chicken noodle soup. The food of my childhood, while...
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Welcome to Paradise — Hawaii and Shrimp with Ginger Chili sauce
It has been hot as blazes in Los Angeles, and the thing about Los Angeles is it does hot extremely well. 3 digit temperatures, brush fires — a heat wave turns the City of Angels from a reasonably...
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My Love Affair with Gourmet — Crab Cakes with Spicy Avocado Sauce
I am often asked where I learned to cook. I am someone who cooks regularly, and enthusiastically and sometimes even ambitiously, so I suppose this is a simple and obvious question. But the answer is...
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Steamy Kitchen Cookbook Review and Garlic Butter Noodles with Shrimp
I have a little bit of a cookbook problem. You see, when we moved to our current home, we dedicated a reasonable sized bookcase to the cookbooks. It had four shelves, was about two and a half feet...
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Miso Shrimpo Po’ Boys — Summer Sophistication
In the summertime, I’m usually all about the simple food. The amazing fruits and vegetables practically prepare themselves for dinner, and a typical weeknight menu will look something like this: BLT,...
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Summer Vacation II: Great State of Maine and Crab Rolls
After we went to New York this summer, we decided to head up the coast to Maine. Ken and I both love New England — he spent part of his childhood there, and we met in college there. I’m a total...
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Salmon On Curried Spinach
I told my husband last night that I loved him but what I really need is a 1950′s wife. Someone who will hand me a cocktail and my slippers when I walk in the door so I can relax, pat the kids on the...
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Game Day Eats for Your Super Bowl Party
It’s almost Super Bowl Sunday, and whether you’re a Patriot or a Hawk, a Westerner or a New Englander, a football fan or … not – we can all agree on one thing – food. The below recipes are appetizers...
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What I’m Reading: January 2015
It’s no secret that I’m a big bookworm. I was shocked to read recently that almost three quarters of Americans read fewer than ten books last year, and almost a quarter read NO BOOKS AT ALL. I read...
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Valentine’s Day Modern Flower Arrangement Tutorial
If there’s any day of the year when you should say it with flowers, it’s Valentine’s Day. A dozen red roses is a little cliche (and a lot too overpriced) for my taste. To help you break out of your...
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Spicy Cabbage with an Egg on Top
There are times when I’m a fancy cook. When I take time in the kitchen, slicing potatoes paper thin for Pommes Anna, slowly rendering the fat from the skin of a duck breast until it is perfectly...
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What I’m Reading – February 2015
This month was less prolific than last – in part because I have taken up knitting, which lends itself to TV-watching more than reading, sadly, but which is a marvelous stress reducer (until you have...
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Trader Joe’s Cheap Wine Pick: La Granja Tempranillo
I have a confession: I’ve been holding out on you. This wine is probably the reason I started the Trader Joe’s Cheap Wine Pick series in the first place. This is the best cheap red wine I’ve found,...
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Sesame Banana Bread
Before I had children, I knew about the downsides. I knew about the sleepless nights, the chaotic house, the picky eaters. But nobody told me about the bananas.You see, being a parent mean you always...
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Book Review: Better than Before by Gretchen Rubin
Longtime readers of this blog may know I’m a huge fan of Gretchen Rubin – I loved The Happiness Project, which helped me through a tough time in my life. So when I had the opportunity to read her...
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Kids Reading with Kindles
I am a reader. Let me rephrase that – I am an avid reader. I read 52 books last year,which added up to almost 19,000 pages. I LOVE to read.I am a reader because I grew up in a house of readers – my...
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Springtime Butter Lettuce Salad with Herbs
It’s springtime. We Californians have stopped clinging to even a hope of winter (though a late Alaskan rainstorm this week has been very welcome!) and even in Boston, where it seemed like winter would...
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What I’ve Been Reading – March and April 2015
As some of you might know, I got quite sick at the beginning of March, which seriously threw me off my reading (and cooking) game. I found myself starting and not finishing a lot of books and turning...
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