A Fine Food Weekend

This has been a fabulous weekend for eating around here. Woe is me that is has also been my first weekend back on Weight Watchers after many years. I have counted every blessed point though, and managed to use a full week’s of flex points in two days. So it goes. Friday night we had…

Are You a Girl Blog or a Boy Blog?

Got no picture and this ain’t about food, but I can’t resist.  One of my favorite nonfood bloggers, Andrew Sullivan, posts about this blogger’s discovery of a tool that tries to determine whether a blogger is male or female.  The science seems a little obscure to me, but the results are fun.  On two tries…

Can You?

Can you have too much asparagus? No. (Not yet anyway.) Rubbed with olive oil, roasted at 450 degrees, sprinkled with sea salt and pepper, splashed with champagne vinegar. Perfect.

Serendipity

My husband says I am never hungry, I am always really hungry. I guess I must say that a lot.  Around 11:30 this morning I was really hungry. Breakfast had been so long ago I couldn’t remember it. So I scrounged around in the fridge. We had some excellent tuna salad mixed with a confetti…

Sprung

\ Maybe we’ll have spring after all. It wasn’t looking good. The leaves got blasted on our Japanese maple, the daffodils are in tatters and there will be no fruit from the fragrant white blossoms that exploded with such promise just a few weeks ago.  Like much of the country, we’ve had a cold snap…

No-Knead Bread: What Took Me So Long?

As usual, I am a little late to the party. Nothing new there. But yesterday we were doing some long slow cooking – started a pot-roast for dinner tonight – and I thought it would be a good time to try out the famous no-knead bread that Mark Bittman wrote about in the New York…

First Seder

By the time we arrived in Palm Harbor Saturday night  and had our seafood feast (which, as Evan pointed out, could not have been less kosher), Ronnie had already been cooking for Passover for a full day. She was expecting 31 guests for Monday night’s Seder and you do not throw together a dinner for…

Seafood-2-Go

We are in Palm Harbor, Florida, visiting some  good friends for Passover tonight. We are not Jewish but these friends are, and we are here to share and learn and eat really, really well. We flew in to Tallahassee Thursday and spent a day in our Apalachicola house, relaxing and taking a long, long walk…