One day it dawned upon me that I have the same intention when making salsa or making the chunky summer soup, gazpacho. Either way, I’m going for a tomato base with veggies and a complex mix of sweet, salty and sour flavors, plus heat from chiles. That same day, I realized that most of the […]
Category Archives: Salads
(New) Friends and Recipes: What Time Doesn’t Change
For a long time, I’ve been in the habit of imagining what some people I meet may have looked like in their younger days. It started, I think, with a work colleague who was about 15 years older than I. She was elegant and lovely, a very kind and fun person. Her face had aged […]
Masters in Action
Among the masters in my midst are Martha Nichols and Susan (Sue) Palmquist. Martha, an interior designer, is a longtime friend who has helped me make my successive homes more lovely than I could have done myself. Besides her skills in putting together all the design details, I call her the Color Empress. To see […]