I learned a looooong time ago to order my salad dressing on the side when I go out to eat in an American restaurant. Sometimes even the higher end restaurants still put way too much dressing on salads for me. I love a perfectly dressed salad, not one that is literally swimming in a pool…
How to Make Your Own Icelandic Yogurt
Back in my hippie days in college — no, I really wasn’t a hippie but I did have a tie-dyed shirt — I discovered “health foods.” One of them was yogurt. Growing up I’d never even heard of yogurt let alone eaten it. But when I got to college we had a dairy on campus…
Easiest Cookies Ever for the Holidays — or Anytime!
I went to an old-fashioned “cookie swap” over the weekend, something I haven’t done in years. My sweet neighbor Martha organized it as a way for us to get to know some of the newer people who’ve recently moved into our community. But Martha knows how to host a cookie exchange — there was wine…
Chou-fleur and a Recipe
One of my all time favorite vegetables is cauliflower. And one of my favorite words in French is the word for cauliflower, chou-fleur (“shoo flur”). So I thought I’d share with you one of my favorite recipes for how to make it. Last year I went to dinner at my friends Corey and Yann’s house…