patty-cake pizza

i admit to being a little obsessed with my patty-cake sour dough starter. i actually find myself caring about it as if it's my needy-mic...

vegetarian california rolls

the first time i ate sushi i popped the dollop of wasabi into my mouth and swallowed it whole . . .  it took a few seconds before the vapors...

patty-cake bread

          if patience is a virtue, then let's just say i've spent most of my life striving for it . . . this is an oxymoron, i know,...

in the beginning . . . wild yeast bread starter

for the last week i have been getting up every morning to feed fresh flour and water to my wild yeast bread starter, and to check it for sig...

a 1989 bottle of chateau lagrange, and "taste"

           when jim and i were given the generous gift of a 1989 chateau lagrange i got out our map of bordeaux, and my favorite story abou...

acorn squash soup

          when we get a new crack in our old stone patio i solve the problem of how to keep weeds from growing up in it by sowing in some th...

homemade pasta

which came first,   the pasta or my hunger for it? simple. unadorned. frank. unpretentious.   a bowl of linguine satiates my appetite with i...