Here’s what’s cooking in my kitchen this week, friends, including my Fourth of July menu. I hope you find something here that suits you! Monday: Roast Chicken (rotisserie is great if you need a Monday time saver) and Asparagus with Bacon, Shallots and Pine Nuts. Tuesday: SPC’s Fish Sammie. With a slaw made of cabbage, shredded carrot,…
People tend to feel very passionate about their favorite potato salad, and this one is mine. It took years of tweaking to get this recipe just so. It’s modeled after the French Potato Salad at Pronto! in Royal Oak, Michigan, one of my all-time favorite restaurants. I’ll admit that this is not E’s favorite potato…
Today, I’m feeling like I got offered the role of the good Samaritan in Jesus’ famous parable, and instead I chose to play the priest or the Levite, both of whom left a man who had been robbed and beaten lying on the side of the road (Luke 10: 29-37). I know I’m not the…
I wanted to name this post “Asparagus Crack,” or “Asparagus for Asparagus Haters.” The Food52 Cookbook calls their version “Absurdly Addictive Asparagus,” which is certainly accurate. And because I have asparagus haters in my house, I had to try it, to see how they would respond. And oh. My. Word. E said something like, “Well, if…
We’ve had another week of people coming and going and coming and going here – our Virginia family is packed out and on their way to Michigan for a week, and they spent their last night here with us. Because their belongings are en route to Germany, I inherited a pantry’s worth of goods that…
When I was interviewing preschools, one of my questions was, of course, “How do you handle discipline?” Folks, I must be waaaaay out of the loop on what’s de rigeur in early childhood education these days, because with only one exception, every time I asked this question, the school administrator was quick to tell me…