Sunday mornings around here are usually an occasion for lingering over breakfast and the newspaper. S is a great breakfast chef and always makes something delicious; flipping pancakes or scrambling eggs to the strains of our favorite Sunday tunes: Charlie Haden and Hank Jones’s album Steal Away: Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs.
To celebrate that impulse [...]
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Posted in cooking, family, food on February 14, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Crab cakes anyone?
Posted in Oregon, cooking, family, food on January 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »
My husband S and my brother T are great friends. One of the things they love to do together is cook. As far as I can remember, the first food they conspired on were crab cakes, and for a long time they never made them except when they could do it together.
These days, though, S [...]
The perfect present
Posted in collections, family on January 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Have you ever gotten the perfect present? The one that makes you gasp a little when you open it; amazed that the giver knows you so well? The one that you could never have picked for yourself, but when you see it you know it is “you?”
I got one of those this year.
Before I go [...]
