College kitchen essentials are not the same for everyone. The list of qualifiers grows while shopping; lots of items seem essential. In our case, my essentials list was longer, not the student. Launching the second son into college apartment life I thought would be a...
I sure was having a leisurely afternoon on a Wednesday. Hubby had a late meeting. Plenty of leftovers in the refrigerator, I was off the hook for cooking dinner. At five o’clock, I thought, “Hey, there won’t be any lines at the car wash, I’m taking my latest InStyle...
Blustery cold weather keeps hitting the Bay Area like a boom-a-rang, cold, warm and cold again. Sunday night of Memorial Day weekend when a BBQ dinner was the norm, seemed weird. Who has a BBQ in the rain? Our go to rainy-day dinner is soup. We’ve had so many rainy...
“Tons of customers are buying cauliflower pizza crusts,” my friend, a part-time checker at a local fine-foods store informed me. I kind of liken cauliflower pizza crust to spaghetti-squash “noodles.” Not feeling it…. But, if that’s what’s trending, maybe cauliflower...
My hope for this Thanksgiving: Americans become like the food the holiday represents. I’m pretty sure at most Thanksgiving meals, there are dishes people like and dishes people don’t like, yet all the food is welcome at the table. Nobody would dare put up a...
My plan for the Saturday after Thanksgiving was to hit the gym, thirty minutes after my homemade apple pie breakfast. Two delicious bites for old times sake and I was done with sweets until Christmas. I shouldn’t brag, but this was the best pie...
