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I forgot I had a potluck to attend last weekend, so I reached for an easy, reliable and always welcome recipe: Katharine Hepburn Brownies. You can find these brownies all over the Internet (at Patti Cakes, at Angelnina’s Cottage and The Gourmet Project, to name three).  I found it in my Gourmet cookbook. You cannot, [...]

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Lucky me. I found myself in possession of a selection of succulent local pears. Even though these are quite lovely eaten raw, I decided to use nearly all of them as the basis for my local-food contribution to yesterday’s local wine-local food dinner.
At first, I thought I’d make a pear tart of some kind, perhaps [...]

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Organic wines were the headliner at my friends’ house last night, and they provided the perfect accent to a weekend of good food. What a good deal, given that I haven’t cooked all weekend!

I’ll talk about the food below, but here’s a bit about the wines. The wines we tasted, before I lost track:

Bonterra Vineyards [...]

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Finally! Some good news on the food front: Red wine makes you live longer. Sort of. (OK, it’s not the wine but something in it, but why be picky?) Also in the news: socializing delays dementia. Probably, anyway. (Sometimes I wish these scientific studies were more definitive.)
Put these two together, and you get wine group. [...]

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All right. Back to business writing about food. During the week in software sludge, I still managed to eat, and sometimes very well. I even took some pictures. So as not to let them go to waste, here are some highlights from last week:
CSA delivery

Lettuce, spinach, kale, mesclun. Perhaps you see a pattern there. That’s [...]

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If it’s May, it’s potluck time for students in Loren’s weightlifting classes. Well, it is May, and the weather gods shined on the annual event Sunday here in Lawrence park. The food was as good as the weather, but there was so much to choose from that I was too full to try it all.
Here’s [...]

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