The Weekly Photo Challenge is from every angle. I had to walk around with this one a bit. What pictures have I taken that captured different angles of an image or place? Throughout the day my muse was silent. Then I started to cook. The act of cooking always opens my mind and allows me the freedom to mentally wander. So as I chopped and minced the museum in the Round Tower came … [Read more...]
Photo Challenge: Today Was a Very Good Day
A perfect day is setting out, camera in hand and walking. It can be my familiar neighborhood... Or a place in LA that I’ve never been... A slowwalk through my childhood stomping grounds. A short trip to find an organic dairy in Missouri leads to an all day excursion and close encounters with a black cat, a former meth house, small town hanging onto a life … [Read more...]
Blueberry Cardamom Compote
Blueberries are my favorite berries and luckily they are everywhere. As a kid I picked them off a bush at my grandmother’s lake house. For years my breakfast consisted of Dannon blueberry yogurt. As my taste buds matured, I moved onto Greek yogurt with homemade blueberry compote. Blueberries are my go to berry. I use a blueberry drizzle on my lemon ricotta tart. Blueberry … [Read more...]
Red Cabbage Slaw with Ginger
I don’t like mayonnaise. There I said it. It becomes a problem when making summer standards like potato salad and coleslaw. My challenge is how to come up with a non-mayo alternative that can become part and parcel of my summer barbeque repertoire. And, this might be too much to dream, even be requested at the next get together. Wandering through one of the many ethnic … [Read more...]
Summertime Garden Party Menu Videos
When five food fanatics get together to cook and eat there's a lot of fun and food to be had. We joined forces to create a Summertime Garden Party Menu. Last week I posted the links to the dishes that these fab food fanatics created. This week I'd like to share videos that capture the fun we had cooking, talking and tasting the dishes we created. By the time we finished … [Read more...]
