Returning food to the sacred
Mulled wine has a very long history dating back to the 2nd century! It has incarnated in various ways through all of Europe, the Americas and mention of it in Turkey. After all this time the recipes have changed, evolved and become quite flexible with the one constant being hot wine sweetened with […]
Winter is very quickly leaving us and I’m so not ready. I am still savoring the crisp air that greets me up at the cabin when I head up there after a week in hot Los Angeles. These days aren’t long for this year and I’m holding on to every last one with deep love […]
I’ve juiced extensively in the past and on and off for the last 20 years. I love juices that are more vegetable than fruit as the sugar bomb fruit juices can be, hit me way to hard and don’t leave me feeling good or energized. But as far as taking in a boost of concentrated […]
Come on… did you really think I’d spend months on end in Thailand and NOT discuss this elixir of indulgence and bliss? Anyone of us who has ever either been to Thailand or a Thai restaurant has had the divine and potentially diabetic coma inducing Thai Ice Tea, yes? I don’t know what to tell […]
Jon and I had our Housewarming party last weekend and I served nothing but stick food and cocktails. Don’t ask me why, but the idea stuck and off I went to make food we could all eat on a stick. This is the little cocktail I served and it was delicious but deceptive and after […]
I love me my blended Chai lattes. It’s all I get when I go out to any coffee shop, but living out beyond a 30 minute drive to any, I just don’t have them as often as I might like. This of course, isn’t a bad thing. At about $5+ a pop, I have to […]
I must say, I have loved having our friends, Rox and Shane, share the bounty of their lime tree with us. For weeks it seemed that every time I went over there for my thrice weekly swim, I walked away with a bag of home grown organic limes. I used them on everything; in my […]
My awesome friend Kim came by the other day with a Juicer for me. I haven’t had one in a while, not since I completely burned out the engine in my Juiceman a couple of years ago. I had intended on replacing it, but then in plans to move here to Maui, I just didn’t […]
We woke up to a gloriously tropical rainy day today, and although all the windows are open because it really isn’t that cold, there is still enough of a hint of chill in the air that I decided to make tea. How could I not? The house is softly lit, the raindrops are heavy against […]
