Today was cold and sunny. Lunch was hot, homemade tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich on the side. Such goodness took the sting out of spending the rest of the afternoon balancing the checkbook and chasing a phantom $153 charge. I put a big pinch of dried saffron in the pot as the…
Category: Snapshots
Snapshot(s): Halloween 2015
Last night’s Halloween was one for the record books. Five hundred ninety-six trick-or-treaters came calling, descending upon our neighborhood in hordes of super heroes, princesses, and pirates. We had just enough candy to go around. After days of endless rain, the weather turned autumnally perfect — crisp and cool, stars speckling the damp night sky…
Snapshot: Watermelon Plugs
Did you catch the video making social media rounds recently showing another new way to cut and serve a watermelon? It’s simple and works great. Pictured above is a mini-melon, the perfect size for my small household. Slice it in half on a cutting board. Place one of the halves cut side down. Slice it…
Snapshot: Grapefruit Spoon
Breakfast today. I love having the right tool for the job.
Snapshot: Easter Table
I planted a garden down the center of my dining table for dinner at sunset on Holy Saturday. Even the nest was real, built two years ago by birds on the ledge of a bathroom window at my house. One of the birds had a decorator’s eye, finishing off the nest with a ruff of…
Snapshot: Champagne Tasting
Champagne tasting with my Valentine and friends at The Capital Hotel in Little Rock on February 14, 2015. (So glad I’m not in charge of washing stemware.) Sometimes the photo is the story.
Sticky Toffee Pudding
Boiling good beer won’t get a cook arrested, but some beer purists might argue that it should. This Sticky Toffee Pudding is worth the crime, though. An American will see that it’s really cake, known in British nomenclature as pudding because all desserts are puddings in Brit-speak. Don’t serve the cake without the sauce; it’s…
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