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Category Archives: Family

Clafoutis are traditionally made with sour cherries, or with all variety of stone fruit and berries, but what about a savory one, what about a corn clafouti? I have some leftover corn in my fridge (all summer I have leftover corn in my fridge) and you can get a clafouti in the oven by the […]

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Quite by chance I happened upon the PBS series The Mind of a Chef, on Netflix.  I am still on season one, and season three begins this September, so we have time to catch up. Having grown tired of the non-stop food competitions on Food Network, and the glorification of  individuals who have no more […]

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We go through life looking for answers in all the wrong places, and sometimes there is never a good answer. Last weekend I attended my first blogger conference, BlogHer 2014.  It was an amazing getting to meet so many virtual friends, and getting a taste of just how much I have yet to learn, about […]

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When I was in fourth grade I entered a Girl Scout bake-off, and won first prize with a plum cake. I believe it was the Plum Cake Cockaigne from The Joy of Cooking. Each of my sisters and I made something for this competition, and basically my mom just gave us each a recipe. I […]

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Last week while driving I happened upon an interview with chef Thomas Keller on the NPR program From Scratch. It was a long interview and covered a lot of territory, but what really struck a chord with me was when Keller said “cooking is about repetition”. That phrase really resonated with me, as it does with […]

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