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…

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…

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…

Bloomington’s finest hours may be in the springtime that earns us our name. We truly are a blooming town; with red buds, dogwoods, fruit trees, daffodils, crocuses and hyacinths, we are a riot of soft and fragrant color these warming days. You can see the difference at the farmers market too. We have only one…

Have I moved to Austin?  No, Hank, but it’s a thought. I haven’t posted in a long, long while not because I’ve been tempted to move geographically, but because I have been contemplating a more fundamental shift – philosophical, ethical, spiritual, or perhaps merely culinary. For more than 25 years I have called myself a…

Hey, from Austin, TX.  It has been just too cold in Bloomington for my blood, so when J had a conference here this weekend, I tagged along. It’s warm and breezy here and such a terrific city – I’ve been strolling the streets and falling in love. Yesterday I walked down to the state capitol…

Back home again in Indiana.  Ten plus hours  of dry recyled air in a plane reactivated my cold with a vengeance which left me with a couple of days in bed to brood about my life. I’ve been getting a kick out of reading the “Five Things You Don’t Know About Me” posts as the…

What a trip – good to the last drop. Couldn’t have had a better time, and it ended as it began, with a full tummy and a happy heart. Blogging has kind of shot the hell out of my mornings (trying to make these crappy indoor, night time photos look remotely appetizing is a challenge),…

We leave Paris tomorrow  afternoon, so I want to get this posted and scoot outside to enjoy our last day. Looks like a sunny one and the plan, anyway, is to go after lunch to the top of the Tour Montparnasse and see the whole beautiful city laid out at our feet. We’ve never done…

Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all! It’s drizzly and windy, but soon to be 54 degrees! Compared to the weather reports I am getting from the Midwest, the weather here is darn near perfect. Yesterday was great. Sunny, too! I decided one day of whining in Paris was  one too many, so took my scratchy throat and…

Maybe getting repeatedly drenched and chilled is not the way to maintain good health. I don’t know, but I imagine that somewhere the food gods, whichever ones zapped me with a nasty head cold in the midst of our Parisian idyll, are having a hearty laugh at my expense. Go ahead, laugh. I am still…

The trouble with Paris,  especially if your days here are numbered, is that there is too much to eat and not enough time that you can afford to wait to be hungry again in between meals, snacks, and small bites of this and that. So be it. Yesterday was a lovely day — sunny, rainy,…