Archive for June, 2012

• June 28, 2012 • 2 COMMENTS

  Pike Market in Lists

  I wanted to write about each of the recent four cities which I traveled to with my kids (and sometimes my mother and my husband) in the past nine days. I wanted to, but that would have meant less sleep and fewer activities (but do eat at the café at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, and... MORE

• June 26, 2012 • 3 COMMENTS

  Recipe: Fork-In-The-Road Savory Corn Muffins

  My older son loves, loves, loves corn muffins, and it was his suggestion to create a Fork in the Road version with heat, since he also happens to like jalapenos — as in he orders a side of jalapenos to snack on whenever he is in a place where such a thing is possible. First,... MORE

• June 21, 2012 • 2 COMMENTS

  Portable Dishes for Summer Potlucks

  I absolutely love a potluck party. I like hosting them, I like attending them, I like thinking about what to bring.  You can be as creative as you like, or as safe as you like, and either way, your offering will be greeted with gratitude and enthusiasm. Recently I brought a frittata, pre-sliced into thin little wedges, to... MORE

• June 19, 2012 • 1 COMMENT

  Recipe: Simplest, Freshest Spring Greens for Father’s Day

  For Father’s Day, what my husband wanted the most was not to be chained to sinkfuls of dishes to be washed, which given who is he is married to is an understandable request. We took him out to dinner to a serious barbecue place, one that leaves your clothes smelling like pork and fire, and... MORE

• June 14, 2012 • 0 COMMENTS

  Recipe: Fork-In-The-Road Pad Thai

  This dish is one of the most popular in Thailand and in Thai restaurants throughout the world, for excellent reason. It’s amazing. It’s a quintessential example of the homerun that is Southeast Asian food — a blend of hot and sour, salty and sweet. It provides your taste buds with plenty to keep them busy,... MORE

• June 12, 2012 • 1 COMMENT

  Recipe: Pasta with Extreme White Clam Sauce

  This is a stupidly clammy sauce, so full of clams, it should really be called clams with pasta. The clams in the shell are beautiful and whole and delicious, but the sauce is riddled with plump morsels of chopped clams, so every bite of pasta is filled with clams, not just the forkfuls that are... MORE

• June 07, 2012 • 0 COMMENTS

  Get Yourself a Bake and Shark at Maracas Beach, Trinidad

  Gary I went to a friend’s daughter’s wedding in Trinidad this past weekend. While the wedding was beautiful, the dancing was excellent, and the Caribe beer quite thirst quenching, the following was one of the most memorable parts. We went to a beach called Maracas beach, where they are famous for their waves and their Bake... MORE

• June 05, 2012 • 3 COMMENTS

  Recipe: How to Bake Your Bacon

  Ladies and gentlemen, are you frustrated by unevenly cooked bacon?  Are you embarrassed by bacon curled up into unseemly snarls?  Are you tired of skidding around on a skating rink of grease in front of your stove as you suffer the splattering hot grease that comes out of the frying pan? Well, you don’t have... MORE