I was thinking about Labor Day. It’s a funny title for a time that’s meant to be a break from labor. I mean, shouldn’t it be called Rest Day? Or Chill Out Day?*. I think so.
So it’s in a very non-laborious spirit that I offer this, one of my highest reward-to-effort ratio recipes (i.e. lots […]
The other night, inspired by the Roasted Tomato Roundup I was putting together (and by a recipe from Figs Olives Wine), I made an impromptu dinner, tossing cherry tomatoes and chunks of eggplant with olive oil, garlic, thyme and olives and roasting it all in a well-worn Le Creuset pan until the mixture was fragrant and […]
Forget it. I was planning to expound on prolonging the pleasures of the tomato in this post, but I’ve found so many other fantastic recipes for Slow Roasted Tomatoes that I decided it would be better for everyone if I just did a roundup. So here goes:
It’s Tomato Season! (Prevention: September 2007). This is my recipe […]
I saw a video interview on Root Concepts yesterday with Heather Stephenson from Ideal Bite (like Daily Candy, only Green). Heather used a term in the interview, “Light Green Lifestyle,” that made me think. What shade of Green am I living?
I can certainly don a dark-green mantle and expound on all the ways I do live […]
I know, I know. I promised tomatoes as my next post. But darn it, my brother came to visit from New York this weekend, we got caught up in the revelry of Healdsburg’s 150th anniversary and I caught a cold. As a result, I never made it to the farmers market, (I still owe the fish […]
I got an e-mail from my friend Jason yesterday asking for advice on preserving tomatoes. Poor thing (envious sarcasm there) is going to Europe for three weeks just as his tomatoes are coming into their own. He’d gotten some great canning advice from Kalyn’s Kitchen, but I admitted to him that I’m a bit intimidated […]
As many of you know, I write about food and develop recipes for magazines. Most of those articles I won’t mention here (I will, though, post them on my website), but this one is different.
To start, I wrote this article for Prevention about my time living on the Greek island of Corfu, an experience that […]
I stumbled upon this article in Forbes today while reading a cool blog (The Not Quite Crunchy Parent) and, surprisingly, it lifted my spirits. Normally, when I read about a study showing that “Most 3- and 5-year-olds who taste-tested a variety of foods said they preferred the ones in the McDonald’s wrapper — even though […]
Our fridge is dead. It’s actually been dead for nearly a month, during which time Christopher and I have been shuttling food back and forth from our Emergency-Costco-Fridge in the carport (lots of fun in a bathrobe with a baby on your hip, I assure you). I had quite a few chuckles with my friends […]
I know it’s the middle of summer, but I just picked the first full batch of green beans off our towers in back (check them out . . . I think Christopher’s just going to have to be in charge of the ‘high harvest’ work) and couldn’t resist bringing up this article on Red with […]
