Food News

Listening to dough…

Here is  a beautiful piece of writing about bread baking and about finding a personal connection with the food you prepare in general. I’ve vowed that I will be a better bread baker starting this year. I’ll let you know how that comes out. http://www.saveur.com/baker-apprentice-frederic-lalos

When you get yourself in a pickle…

When you get yourself in a pickle, do you stay cool as a cucumber? Food is such a critical part of our lives that it is no wonder that we pepper (sorry) our language with food references. It looks like we can’t keep up with…

Happy National Banana Bread Day!

    Maybe it is just my little blond brain, but National Banana Bread Day (February 23)  totally snuck up on me this year. Did that happen to you, too? All I have is one lonely overripe banana sitting in my fruit bowl. I can’t…

Piecaken

I’m sitting here at my computer, just home from a holiday shopping excursion and nursing a coffee mocha I treated myself to on the way home. It’s cold here in Huntington Beach and my icy fingers are warmed by the zarf that encircles my pretty…