RECHARGING This weekend past, I spent a few days recharging in a cabin out on the far reaches of the Washington coast. My dear friend Nancy and I used take our children there when they were little. They jumped and played in the waves, laughing at us when we told them that it was too […]
Date Shake
Date Shake At the beginning of the health food movement in the early 1950’s, Kayser’s opened in Santa Barbara. It was one of the first health food stores, a trend that over the years became more mainstream. Jonathan Kauffman writes about this movement in his excellent book titled Hippie Food, which, by the way, was listed as […]
Uncle Alphonso’s No-Fuss Paella
Uncle Alphonso’s No-Fuss Paella Today I’m doing laundry, folding clothes, and plumping pillows in the guest room for dear friends who are coming for an end of year visit. Then it will be back into the kitchen to make and remake recipes for book three, which is coming along nicely. 🙂 As New Year’s is […]
Black Bean Torte Update
Black Bean Torte Update Yesterday was a quiet one at Pie Cottage. Tonight there will be another lovely holiday meal, and there’s still some of the black bean torte to share, the recipe from 1994 that I posted last week. Here’s a torte update, along with some photos for those of you who asked for […]
Black Bean Torte
Black Bean Torte Last night, as I was going through a manila folder of mainly hand scribbled recipes, this one for Black Bean Torte showed up in a newsletter I had saved from 1994. It was from Chinaberry Book Service, which at that time was a wonderful homespun book catalogue. Whenever their catalogue arrived in […]