This stuff is so much better than canned soup. If you don’t have a Parmesan cheese rind, Kroger sells containers of rinds in the fine cheese area. Those rinds are small & kind of fussy to pick out of the soup, though. I’d rather buy a wedge of real-deal Parmesan & use the rind from…

I went to an estate sale this morning in a beautiful, gated neighborhood. Parking was prohibited inside the gates, but a couple of sales staff in golf carts shuttled shoppers and looky-loos in from lushly landscaped neighboring streets. I didn’t buy the life-sized ceramic armadillo, although it would have made a superb wedding present for…

Take it as proof that this is good pie: We polished it off before it occurred to me to snap a photo. This one’s for you, S. I’ve been making pecan pie for a long time. I like the syrupy goodness of the old-fashioned kind, full of toasted pecans and jiggly goo*. Homemade pastry is…

Most of the year, clients pay my lawyer husband in the official currency of the United States and its overseas territories, i.e., the American dollar. That makes it convenient for paying our mortgage and associated household  expenses. But periodically, most often in December, different currencies appear. Expressions of friendship and gratitude, they take the form of…