I have been on something of a pizza kick lately, and not those commercially prepared pies with flavorless cheese and mushy veggies. I can directly pin-point when this all started. It began at the Mushroom Council lunch when Chef Kent Rathburn made us a grilled mushroom pizza. I knew in that moment that I would [...]
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Do you impulse buy? I do. My impulse buys are most often food related. Last week I discovered a really great local cheese shop, Scardello Artisan Cheese, in Dallas and I could not help but go in and shop. I got some terribly expensive, and very tasty, sea salt caramels, some disappointing dark chocolate, and [...]
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
It is that time of year. Fruit is starting to come into the market that looks fresh and ripe, the weather is warmer, and my thoughts turn to baking. I was at the market a few days ago and tucked behind a box of huge strawberries were these really beautiful blueberries. They were on [...]
Friday, April 17, 2009
Often when I make dinner I skip any kind of bread item. It isn’t that I don’t like bread with dinner, on the contrary I love bread with every meal, but I usually forget to make or buy bread and so we skip it. I justify it by thinking of all the calories I [...]
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
When I was in England last Fall I fell in love. Not with a person, or even the land or the culture, however fantastic they all are. No, I fell in love with the bacon. In England they serve, almost exclusively, back bacon. If you have never had this kind of bacon before it is a [...]
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
When I was growing up in South Texas we had this neighbor who would, on Saturday afternoons, make her tortillas for the week. Believe me, I made friends with her children so I could make myself available for tortilla day. I think she enjoyed my enthusiasm and always had a few extra tortillas for me to [...]
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
We recently had an ice day I got to stay home with my husband and our three dogs. On such occasions, which are few and far between in my part of Texas, I like to make a big breakfast to celebrate a day of unexpected freedom. So, I made a big stack of fluffy homemade [...]
Friday, December 12, 2008
With the gift giving season descending upon us it makes sense to think about home baked gifts that you can do in advance. Homemade gifts are, to me, the best gifts. They indicate that someone took the time and interest to make you something that took more effort than selecting a gift card. Homemade gifts [...]
Friday, June 12, 2009
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