Cooking
October 15, 2008
- Here's my secret fantasy: I want to be a judge on Iron Chef, the show on Food Network. I want to sit in Kitchen Stadium and watch Mario Batali and Bobby Flay compete against chefs from famous restaurants. Famous chefs, famous restaurants, the two contestants battling it out in front of me and my fellow judges. I want to be served ten courses of amazing food and then decide the winner. I ...
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October 9, 2008
- In the weddings pages of The New York Times Sunday Styles section, the following detail is sometimes included, along with parentage, bloodlines, colleges, occupations, the way they met, nicknames and such: “The bride will continue to use her maiden name for professional purposes.” I often wonder why.I kept my maiden name, but my husband and I have pretended that we are not married. Not for ...
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September 29, 2008
- All weekend, I've been puzzling over a "what happened then" element in my new proposal. It's been making me crazy because no matter how many notes I jotted down, how many creative naps I took, how many brainstorming sessions I had with John, it wasn't coming to me. Then I decided to make some quick and easy marinara sauce for dinner and voila! In ten minutes, I had the missing ...
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September 20, 2008
- I have been toying with this cookbook idea. I want to make a collection of really awful recipes. So, dear readers … what is the recipe you have seen or tried that would have been better if it not existed? Here is my all time favorite. I found it in an employee fundraiser cookbook that belongs to my mother. The book is circa 1975 and is filled with recipes from the women who worked ...
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August 24, 2008
- While Jeannie’s family was leaving Woodsong at 6:30 Saturday morning on their way to Nashville for Leslie to start college there, Gerry was hurriedly signing off the phone with his dad. The moving van had surprised him by arriving early in Georgia, where he and Vickie and Geri Ann had been sleeping on air mattresses in their rented house. Our family has been busy adjusting to many ...
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August 17, 2008
- Although we are long past the stage in life where we must get kids ready for a new school year, nevertheless, like most Americans, our lives are impacted by the academic calendar. Soon we will be trying to avoid being on the roads at the time we know school buses will be picking up and letting off children. We know we will have fewer visits with the grandchildren now. College towns are ...
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August 6, 2008
- At the Trail of Tears Association board meeting tonight in Carbondale, Cheryl Jett arrived breathlessly with her supper in hand from a drive-through window. Our meeting after her drive down from Collinsville was just one of the many places she had to go today. This was also her first deadline for materials for her book about the city of Alton coming out sometime in 2009. She had prepared ...
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July 24, 2008
- Gerald was explaining to me this morning what glycemic index is all about. Interestingly, the desirability of some food items on the index conflicts with previous information given to us by dietitians in the past. GRRR.For someone like me, who does not like change, trying to absorb the new information is as aggravating as trying to remember what in the world our bank calls itself now. After much ...
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July 22, 2008
- Maybe this Carrot Soup recipe doesn't belong on a writer's blog. Maybe I don't care. It's cold in northern California this week and all I can think about is soup. I love soup, what can I say? And if any simple soup is worthy of a blog it is this. Try it.CARROT DILL SOUP-melt 4 tbs butter in soup kettle- add 1 lg diced onion and cook over low heat until wilted (10 min)- add 2 1/2 pounds peeled ...
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July 22, 2008
- If you've read my blog entries, you may have seen my post about 'click' moments, and how food is important, because knowing what a character eats, and whether they cook, go out, or grab a pizza helps me understand them.And if I don't understand them, I can't write them. For me, without well-developed characters, there's no story. I wrote "Out of Sight" for fun, starting with a ...
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