Do You Know where your Claire has been?? It becomes obvious you’ve been busy doing other things when all your blog posts are labeled “older posts.” This seems to be the case for me at present as within the last year the only things I’ve posted were snippets about gluten and gingerbread, neither of which [...]
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Pancakes, A Happy Place
Pancakes Of Plenty Growing up, making pancakes meant that we got a box, stirred in milk and eggs with a big spoon and plopped the dough haphazardly onto a skillet. Every little dough bit cooked wether a drippy dot or a pool of batter. Cooked droplets of batter looked more like spetzle than pancakes but [...]
Tickle Me Peaches
Oh the brilliant peach. Ripe and plump, the peach can be virgin like purity cloaked in a temperature sensitive skin. Precious and untouched as it hangs from an unassuming protective tree blushing, the peach hides a soft and aromatic flesh that loves you back once you bring her on down. Possibly the forbidden offspring of [...]
Up the River: MS Matters
Gather round now and get your skillets ready… I’m going home! Alright only to visit but it will be a productive and intense time of talking to people, visiting places and eating the fares all in the name of food. Good fair food for all… I can’t wait to get to MS and see what [...]
Blueberries For Claire
And for the jam fellow. Ok, and my sister, my neice, my friends, and you! Enter The Blueberry… the best little berries out there. "Well, get here early." "Oh, so you get picked clean." "No, it's hot." And she wasn't kidding. In Florida I was sweating, or glistening, almost as soon as the sun came [...]
Speaking to my Grandfather
What you eat, and I will tell you what you are. Or more specifically: “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825 Of course, for me this makes perfect sense, I do not see food as just items from the earth or from [...]
We Finally Hit Hot.
New Yorkers brought out the shorts, sneakers and strapless sun dresses in mass amounts today. In the first day of weather that did not require a coat, all of NYC seemed to be extra happy, extra nice and overwhelming appreciative of the blessing that is spring finally arriving. Seeing a precious youngster eating his first [...]
