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 […]
Category Archives: Food
Rhubarb. Spring. Baking.
On Sunday, I enjoyed the pleasures available only on a late May morning in a friend’s kitchen, a friend with a huge rhubarb patch and a baker’s white (flour) thumb. Christine and her husband, Scott welcomed me overnight at their home on a cattle ranch in northeastern Nebraska. For supper Scott grilled pork chops from […]
Oh, Fiddle(head)!
A plateful of fiddlehead ferns is the ultimate in local and seasonal food. I have a nice stand of ferns, especially thriving this year’s cool, damp-enough spring. Last evening, I broke off as many of the cobra-headed spirals as I could find. It came to about three cups of trimmed fiddleheads, all about the size […]