Dining Creekside In Yellowstone Park
As we were camping in Yellowstone Park, no food or cooking items could be left unattended at the campsite. Our Toyota became our traveling dining car—packed with stove, utensils, knives, plates, bowls, wok with lid, and an ice chest filled with washed and partially prepped fresh veggies and already cooked soba noodles. Continue reading Miso Soup with Vegetables and Soba Noodles – Camping Version
“Money can’t buy love, but it can buy pesto.”This anonymous quote says it all—pesto is love itself. I admit to sometimes taking a spoon to my jar of homemade pesto and eating it plain, savoring the complexity of flavor and texture from the basil to the garlic to the nuts to the cheese to the velvetiness of the olive oil. Continue reading Pesto Genovese
A Curious New VegetableFriends of ours grow the most beautiful spaghetti squash and even better, they share their abundance with us, along with their hard-neck garlic, raspberries and rhubarb Continue reading Spaghetti Squash w/ Sautéed Vegetables, Kalamata Olives & Feta Cheese
As a kid, my perfect diet could easily have been ice cream and frosted flakes and peanut butter.
As a teenager, it would have been salads (iceberg lettuce with either French or Thousand Island dressing), Chinese food and my mother’s shrimp cocktail. For awhile as a pastry chef who imbibed sweets all day long, it was Chinese Chicken Salad, cheeses from around the world and espresso.
Later on in life, my perfect diets had names such as raw food, macrobiotic and ovo-lacto vegetarian. Continue reading The Perfect Diet
