First of all, thank you to everyone who left those wonderfully encouraging comments on my “I look fat” post. It really did help.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been thinking ...
Today I’m delighted to introduce a guest writer, my husband S.
It’s known at “Little Gram’s Sauce,” after my mother’s maternal grandmother, a matriarch ...
Finally, a chance to do a little real cooking! On Thursday I had a doctor’s appointment in the late afternoon, and instead of returning to work ...
There are a few things I don’t like to eat (well, more than a few), and most of them center around dairy products: Yogurt. Most cheeses. ...
I brought home a pile of freelance work to do today, and it took longer than I expected to finish it. When I finally turned off ...
4:30 this morning, I wake to find S sitting on the edge of the bed, facing away from me.
-Is everything OK?
-His stomach hurts, he says.
I murmur ...
Ahh, the humble bean. What ingredient is more disparaged, yet more versatile? Sure, you might get a little, umm, musical after, but isn’t it ...
I am blue,
stir-crazy against forbidding cold.
Dinner time approaches. No plan has been
made.
Humble split peas rattle, jarred.
Onion, carrot, celery, parsnip. Bacon.
Twenty minutes later bubbling, thickening.
Time passes, deep ...
You may recall my rave about Cono & Sons O’Pescatore, our favorite old-school Italian joint. Well, my Weight Watchers meeting is around the corner from ...
Yesterday I started a new freelance gig. It’s three days a week, in an office. Fairly easy work, and I’ve already picked up one perk: a ...