Cooking
Holiday Desserts: Pumpkin and Pecan Pies, Gingerbread Men and Christmas Cookies
With the pressures of holiday time added, spilled sprinkles crunching on the kitchen floor and frosting smeared on counter tops can push parents beyond their patience limit. Yet this is how our memories are formed, the way we learn cherished traditions that we continue with our own children. more »
My Mother’s Cookbook; Recipes from Younger Friends: Cindy’s Cookies, Gaby’s Butter Cookies with Jam, California Cheesecake, and Cynthia’s Lemon Bars
My mother valued the companionship of friends her own age, but she also liked learning about the tastes, interests, and ideas of younger women. As she grew older and faced the reality that friends of her generation were leaving this earth in far too rapid succession, the friendships she cultivated with younger women helped to soften those repeated losses. more »
An Apology for Demon Rum
Drink can be a great tool for assessing character. I hope my granddaughters can see that you can tell a lot about a man by the way he handles the way his date drinks — or doesn’t — as much as by how he handles his own drink. more »
EWG Ranks Fruits and Veggies: Apples Top New Dirty Dozen List
Picking five servings of fruits and vegetables from the 12 most-contaminated products would result in consuming an average of 14 different pesticides a day. Choosing five servings from the 15 least contaminated fruits and vegetables would result in consuming fewer than two pesticides per day. more »
