Tag Archives: love to cook August 15th is Julia Child’s 103rd birthday, and I raise a toast and say ‘Happy birthday Julia!’ When I was in culinary school one of my chefs was talking about her one day and said “Julia Child was the first homie” Huh? When I asked him what he meant he explained that she was the person who elevated […]  I am a little ashamed and need to unburden myself; I bought caponata, in a jar. I can make it, I have made it, in fact I’ve posted a recipe for it on this blog; a slow cooker caponata. Writing a food blog comes with a certain amount of pressure (albeit internal) to make things rather than buy […]  It’s summer and crab cakes are an iconic summer dish, so off I went to buy some crabmeat and share the recipe with you. The first store I went to had crab in a can in the fish case, and it was on sale for $16.99; a steal! I asked the man behind the […]  Each night my daughter and I go through the typical family pre-dinner ritual when I ask what she wants for dinner, and she replies “You decide” followed these days by “but no soup; it’s not soup weather!” I agree; who wants soup when you spend your day breathing something that feels more like soup than air? But I […]  Two houses and seven years ago I lived on one of those blocks where block parties were a regular event. As long as the weather was nice we were out there sharing great food and hanging out. I was very sad to leave that street, I’d never had that kind of neighborhood experience before, and […] |
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