I stopped cooking Thanksgiving meals about 5 years ago. I know, I know. It’s one of the big days that all caliber of cooks want
Category: Farmers Market
Last night, I published a blog item. In it, I was profusely apologizing about my lack of posting for the past two weeks (to my
Sadly, I didn’t have a good food childhood. Once my parents divorced, it was mostly canned stuff my mother (or I) prepared, since the only
As a home cook, I choose my recipes very carefully. I want them to be simple. I don’t need to have toasted fennel seeds, combined
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 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
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
The Farmers Market was a light vegetable haul today. Partially, because I haven’t had time to really put my menu together for the week ahead.
Let’s begin with lovely Lulu’s gardening class before we get to Farmers Market Haul. Shelley, Lauren, one of Lulu’s co-workers and Lauren’s husband, Chris, along
You know its the beginning of summer with berries, stone fruit and tomatoes at almost every stall in the market. I went to my favorites