by Toni | Jun 19, 2021 | Come Home, Eggs, Let's Eat
If I am given my choice for dessert, I usually choose something creamy like ice cream or pudding with a short cookie or crust. A refrigerated cream pie is divine! Crème Brulee with shortbread pure heaven! I like cake, of course, but it’s never my first choice; my...
by Toni | Jun 18, 2021 | Come Home, Let's Eat
My grandma’s lace handkerchief, the one she had in her pocket every Sunday for church. Her blue hydrangeas next to my sand pile. Red radishes sliced on white bread with butter and a light sprinkle with salt. Lunchtime at her kitchen table. The massive climbing tree...
by Toni | May 25, 2021 | Come Home, Let's Eat, Live Green
I cannot imagine my kitchen without the spirits of my grandma and mom or the voices of my favorite chefs and best friends. In one way or another, they all have inspired, informed and contributed to every recipe I have ever developed. This has never been truer than in...
by Toni | Mar 18, 2021 | Come Home, Let's Eat, Meat Masterpieces
The Spring season always awakens our tastebuds for those fresh, earthy, cool-weather greens and roots that are the first to emerge from the garden. We dive into kale and leaf lettuces, spring onions, peas and maybe some early varieties of turnips. After winter, the...
by Toni | Feb 16, 2021 | Come Home, Let's Eat, Sinful Sensations
Even after many years, I still miss my grandma. I am as old now as she was when I was a little girl living in her house. That is just so hard for me to fathom. My grandma left this world on June 10, 1993, the year of a great flood where I live. Several similar floods...
by Toni | Dec 20, 2020 | Come Home, Green Decisions, Let's Eat
As most Green Gal readers know, I worship the ground Chef Vivian Howard walks on. So it should come as no surprise that when her PBS series A Chef’s Life came to its final episode, I was inconsolable and weepy for weeks. True to her nature and her calling, Chef Howard...
