Found under SuperFast entrées in this favorite publication, this recipe had everything going for it. I said yes, please.  If you don’t think scallops are your thing or maybe they’re to hard to come buy, I ask you to reconsider understanding that this powerful protein packed mollusk is low-fat, low-cholesterhol [...]

I’m just mad about saffron.  No there’s more, I’m mad about the Amanda Knox trial, standardized testing, and a storm drain that runs beneath our property.

This memory flashes in my mind. Kendall was just two weeks old when a bastard pediatrician had the nerve to give her immunization shots [...]

I prepared this shrimp orzo from Ina’s At Home cookbook a few years back when hosting a cousin girls’ weekend in Los Angeles. The fresh herbs, lemon, and feta cheese make this pasta and shrimp salad explode and because the shrimp is roasted it caramelizes into something sinful. I’ve been making [...]

Anyone with more than one child knows that what you do for one kid you must in some way do for the other.

We had another cause for celebration in our house so I didn’t have to stretch to keep our child-honoring in balance. Last month we gave a nod to [...]

Sorry down under friends, but I was never too fond of shrimp on the barbie because in my experience those little guys singed up too fast making the shrimp dry. The barbeque cooking flavor also overpowered the delicate tasting shrimp.  What I’m really saying, I think, is that I was [...]