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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
The Egg Came First
For the Love of Eggs I am not an egg eater. Well, I was not at least for most of the past 13 years of my life. Baked with plenty of them; made custards, curds and souffles; fried them for my mother; scrambled them at my father’s elbow in bacon grease; and made my way [...]
Share the Excitement
Lately, I have gotten very excited about all the sites I visit, people I follow and folks who are doing big things in the world of food consciouness, sustainablitly and the human condition as a whole in terms of food. As many of you know, I have a passion for the food we eat, and [...]
Sprouts in the Dog House
Alright, long ago and not far away, spinach scared a nation back to into putting iceberg on their sandwiches. Spinach was the tipping point, and most recently alfalfa sprouts have become tainted. Though most are concerned with the looming "swine flu," (get out your Sars masks kids and cover your mouths) issues of food recalls [...]
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 [...]
