A Cuban sandwich pairs exceptionally well with Apple Cider Sangria. If you’re lucky enough to have a friend of Cuban extraction providing the Cuban sandwich, then life just doesn’t get any better. This inventive Apple Cider Sangria was a lovely way to welcome friends and fall recently. Get the recipe by clicking here. The link…
Category: Raves and Faves
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A sighting of autumn at my grocery store. ♦ ♦ ♦ This antipasto platter made by G, the teenage daughter of dear friends who were hosting my husband and me for dinner. It was a work of art, beautiful to look at and delicious to eat. ♦ ♦ ♦ Compassion. I’m still rocking an orthopedic boot after foot surgery…
Raves and Faves 21 (the California edition)
I just got back from a week in California. I’d go again tomorrow if I could. A world of fresh experiences always unfolds when I am lucky enough to travel there. Amazing things happen every time. Like new flavors on my plate. Octopus, for example… …and rabbit (which got me in trouble with Last born, who…
Raves and Faves 20
Fresh herbs growing right outside my back door. ‘Tis the season! Photo on the left was taken immediately after planting three weeks ago. Photo on the right was taken yesterday. Pot of mint added last week. ♦ ♦ ♦ Having an electrician friend willing to come to my house and correct that one, tiny electrical wiring mistake…
Raves and Faves 19
The riot of color in this voluptuous bouquet from my Valentine, via About Vase in Little Rock ♦ ♦ ♦ This quote, transcribed on an index card and tacked to the bulletin board in my home office, where I can see it any time a new catalog from Williams-Sonoma tempts me to go online and put stuff…
Raves and Faves 18
Hot oatmeal in a red bowl, butter and brown sugar on top. ♦ ♦ ♦ Chanel Glossimer lip gloss in Giggle (#46). ♦ ♦ ♦ Clinton School of Public Service speaker series, through which the world comes to Little Rock, Arkansas. Two speakers in November 2013 held me rapt. The first was Dr. Eben Alexander, author of Proof of…
Raves and Faves 17
White lights and sparkling baubles. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Christmas tree in the lobby of Little Rock’s Capital Hotel, named among the 10 most dazzling this year by Forbes Travel Guide. I second that. ♦ ♦ ♦ A lovely gingerbread village with royal icing snow and working Christmas lights, around which a train chugs and travels through a tunnel….
Raves and Faves 16
This willful, nutty, usually happy dog whose bark sounds like something you’d hear in a swamp at night. He likes a car ride almost more than pot roast leftovers. On this occasion, he was sulking because our errands were done, and it was time to go back in the house. Kai, we’re done with our…
Raves and Faves 15
♦ ♦ ♦ Music on my Halloween playlist: “Rattlin’ Bones,” by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band “The Boogie Man,” by The Cadillacs “Secrets of the Castle,” by John Williams “Ghost Town,” by The Specials “Spooky,” by The Atlanta Rhythm Section “He’s a Pirate,” by Chris Joss and Klaus Badelt (Ship Ahoy Tribal remix) “This Magic Moment,” by…
Raves and Faves 14
Volunteer squash growing where the compost bin used to be. In my backyard, the accidents grow better than the plants I buy on purpose. ♦ ♦ ♦ Bologna, baloney — whatever you call it — makes a fine sandwich on whole wheat bread spread with a little real mayo. I haven’t had one in a very, very long…
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