How to NOT Make a Cabbage Patch Dull
My friend Mark is a homecook like me but he loves to make complicated Moroccan food. The dishes that are thirteen thousand ingredients and counting. I do not. I want my food and cooking. It’s not that I don’t think that dishes with a lot of ingredients aren’t tasty; on the contrary, I find them […]
Read MoreMaking Bread: Unfortunately, not the Green Kind…but Tasty.
I love simplicity.”Keep it simple”, I say to myself constantly. (I try remembering that phrase in everything I do.) I’ve realized that when something becomes too complicated akin to putting together a piece of furniture from Ikea, I believe it’s either not meant to be or you need to stop, look at the process and […]
Read MoreAn Embarrassing Confessional: Whipped Cream
During the seventies, which is when I was growing up, it was difficult to be single mother in the workforce. Alas, I didn’t grow up eating a lot of home-cooked meals such as Alice prepared for the Brady family. It was usually stuff opened from a can and heated such as Campbell’s beans with boiled […]
Read MoreMiami’s Cuban Food Recreation in Los Angeles
I don’t know a lot about Cuban food. I do know that much of originated from the Canary Islands and Spain, just like most of Latin America. With that said, Nick wanted to make something called “mojo” (prounounced “mo-ho” not “mo-jo” which is an Austin Powers act, just to be clear). It’s a very popular […]
Read MoreThe Humble “Crumble” or Just a “Crisp”
I have written many times that my mother wasn’t really a cook. She was a working, single mother and it wasn’t really in her repertoire to cook. Occasionally, she would make a meatloaf or the requisite holiday dinner but normally it was a sandwich, doughnuts, Kraft Mac & Cheese, possibly a can of Campbell’s Pork […]
Read MoreAn Ode to Summer Tomato Sandwiches
As a kid, I didn’t like tomatoes. I found them not only tasteless but mushy or sometimes, hard and inedible. My mother, a good Southern woman, loved them. She was particularly fond of Tomato Sandwiches, which is a predominant lunch staple in the South. Food writer, John Kessler, wrote in the Atlanta Journal Constitution that […]
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How I Go About Cooking
When I want to make something to eat, I first think about what I have in my fridge that will make something decent to eat. I will start perusing recipes thinking to myself what do I want to make and how should it be made? I visit such sites like Cookstar, Foodily and Yummily, ascertaining […]
Read MoreThinking of Christmas in July: Grilled Meats in Buenos Aires
Thinking of Christmas in July: Grilled Meats in Buenos Aires.
Read MoreThinking of Christmas in July: Grilled Meats in Buenos Aires
My birthday always happens near Christmas. It’s not that I’m complaining. People are in a full celebratory mode at that time. Wine and liquor flow freely. It’s just that it’s never warm that warm around this the holidays plus taking a tropical vacation at that time is incredibly expensive since it’s traditionally high season for the airlines and […]
Read MoreLos Angeles Surprises & Garden Fresh Gazpacho
Los Angeles is not known for trains or gardens. Normally, the Land of Pretty People is thought of as a place of vast asphalt and traffic jams. Where a minor fender-bender can result in a manslaughter charge. Tonight though, Lulu, Don and I were going to high-tail it on three trains to get to Highland Park, […]
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