The Joys of Cooking with Friends Eating, for me, is a social event, a way to connect with friends and family while enjoying delicious food. Cooking is just as social. I love having folks in and around the kitchen when I'm cooking and I really enjoy when someone joins...
Years ago when a group of friends and I were celebrating Thanksgiving, a friend asked me to make mushy peas. I had no idea what she was asking for so I made something up. I bought a can of peas (which already sounded mushy to me) and cooked it to death. Needless to...
It's been awhile since I lived in Hawaii but there are still some things that I remember after all these years. One of them is a pea salad from Ryan's Grill, a long-since closed restaurant in Honolulu. We often went there for lunch and I got a salad sampler plate. I...
When I was looking for a dessert for our last Moveable Feast, I found the answer in a recent issue of Food & Wine magazine - a delicious riff on a campfire favorite, the s'more. I love s'mores - gathering around a fire, getting the perfect toasted...