This recipe was recommended by my daughter-in-law to be (I love saying this … soon I’ll get to drop the “to be”) who had it at a friend’s house. As it turns out, it is from Jerusalem: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi, one of my favorite cookbooks. Frequently, his recipes are pretty time-consuming, but this… [Continue]
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Roasted Sweet Potato and Fresh Fig Salad
Here Kedi, Kedi (meow)
Attention cat lovers, armchair travelers, wanderlusters, cord-cutters, and hygge* aficionados: this one’s for you! KEDI is an independent Turkish film about the street cats of Istanbul, and the people who love them. It’s a heart-warming, visual feast for cat people, people people, and those that love to travel. I loved the film because of its… [Continue]
In Memory of Mickie
Mickie Newdorf (August 8, 1929 – February 25, 2017) My Mom was beautiful, intelligent, stylish, determined, and a successful business woman. From her I learned to follow my own path, not one prescribed by others. But, as many of you know, we had a difficult relationship. Being Mickie’s daughter (or son) was not always easy…. [Continue]