Tag: Vegetables

Father's day is a little trickier than Mother's Day for the cooks among us. Moms are easy -- breakfast in bed or brunch seem like the perfect, feminine solution. Fathers are a little …

Anyone who has ever tried to feed a small child knows that their tastes can be unpredictable, particularly when it comes to vegetables. It is a myth that young children hate all vegetables -- …

I think I may have mentioned this before, but my weeknights are awfully busy, what with getting home late, getting dinner on the table, spending some quality tickle time with my daughter and getting her …

It’s May in Southern California. The mornings are foggy, the jacarandas are in bloom, the days are warm, though the nights are cool, and the afternoons are stretching further into the sun dappled evenings. Aesthetically, it's …

<img alt="potato salad cornichons smoked paprika hard boiled eggs" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3460/3377055399_1aa95ebd32.jpg?v=1241141102" title="Potatoes Gribiche" class="alignnone" width="500" height="333" /><br /> With the weather getting warmer, my thoughts start straying in the direction of picnics. Picnics, according to my …

My grandmother, whom I call Memere, has style. In her youth she worked for the government in D.C. during World War II, and dated servicemen and undersecretaries. In her prime she wore …

When I was a little girl, like most children, I had a whole laundry list of things I would not eat. Mustard. Onions. Cucumbers. Bell Peppers. But the things that …