Tag: Vegetables

I love entertaining -- planning a menu, choosing the flowers, setting the table, conversation with friends. Unfortunately, neither I nor any of my friends have the time for an actual dinner party these days. …

I like to pack my own lunch. Yes, I'm giving up the social hour at work, but frankly the lunch offerings in my neighborhood tend to pale in comparison to what gets produced …

It can't possibly be September already. Wasn't it just Easter? What happened to the Fourth of July? I was going to spend this summer at the beach (yep, still milky white here), …

It's that time of the year when people who have vegetable gardens and live close to the earth and in tune with the seasons and all that start complaining about zucchini. "I have so …

The Nuni has been very taken with picnics lately. It started last weekend when we were at the Huntington Library. After a hard hour of playing in the bubble fountains and the rainbow …

It's funny how life works. We spend our entire childhoods longing to grow up, so eager to join the ranks of adulthood that we can almost taste it. To a child, the …

As a child I hated lima beans. I mean, what child doesn't? They're lima beans! They're the punchline of a thousand jokes, the substance of a thousand threats, the stuff of a thousand …