Even with my relaxed goal of sharing one recipe a week, I've fallen behind schedule. Over the last month, my husband has suffered a fractured ankle, my brother in law was hospitalized and my sister and I each had a medical scare arising out of bodily lumps and bumps that makes you wonder if ... Read More
Spaghetti with Clams and Mussels
The pendulum has been swinging between spring and summer in our neck of the woods. With no air-conditioning in our half-century old house and temperatures rising last week, I had to pull our very old electric fan out of storage. This is a fan from my husband's childhood, a contemporary of ... Read More
Asparagus-Salmon Fried Rice (and Pescadero, CA)
If you read one of my recent posts about wishing for a simpler life, these pictures would illustrate perfectly what I envision doing were I to drop everything and move to the rural coast. It had been a couple of months since my last visit to Pescadero so I tagged along with my husband when ... Read More
Smoked Trout Dip
The story behind my obsession with smoked trout dip is here, where I first tried to recreate a Sun Valley grocery store specialty after falling in love with it a few years ago. The main difference is that my first attempt was made with smoked salmon, an alternative I resorted to as I couldn't ... Read More
Dungeness Crab Pasta with Wine, Fried Meyer Lemon Slices and Fried Capers
"You cooked all day." This wasn't exactly accurate but my husband wasn't far from the truth either. When he left for his two-hour bike ride Saturday morning I was in the kitchen kneading dough for pasta...again (I'm obsessed with fresh pasta these days). He returned to find me still in the ... Read More
Poached Cod and Egg over Rice
I looked forward to a few things in anticipation of vacationing in Maui over the holidays: to being away from the day-to-day grind, to spending quality time with my husband, to swimming and lounging on the beach and.... ...to eating a Japanese breakfast. I must have mentioned the last ... Read More
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