Month: February 2009

Pancake Dinners

If you read this blog regularly you may know that pancakes make me smile. There is something so basic and elemental about them. They are a real comfort food…

Mushroom Coconut Soup

Ever know two people you never thought of as having anything in common and yet find that they really hit it off and make a great couple or turn out to be the best of friends? That’s sort of the way I would have thought about mushrooms and coconut. Truth […]

A slice of Cherry Cheese Pie with Morello Cherry Topping.

Washington’s Birthday – Cherry Cheese Pie

Did George Washington really chop down a cherry tree? Maybe. Maybe not. Still, it is as good a reason as any to make a Cherry Cheese Pie and celebrate all things February. I want to hand down the tradition, though in the transmission I am also apt to change a detail or two.

Granola Improvisation

At some point, I don’t know when and I don’t know how, I started running late. This phenomenon took me somewhat by surprise. Even with small children in tow I used to be predictably punctual. My internal rhythm kept me calibrated and I tended to show up where I was […]