Life's a feast

Lamb Goulash and a Book

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:38:00 +0000

WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE? A game of cat and mouse, this trying to find the time to skype with a friend, a book agent. Meanwhile, I put words on paper and as the moment approaches to place it on...

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Crémet Nantais

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:04:00 +0000

PLATED STORIES Monday Monday, so good to me, Monday Monday, it was all I hoped it would be - John Phillips for The Mamas & The Papas As I now sit day after day in...

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Whipped Spelt Bread

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:31:00 +0000

BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS How long has it been since I have cooked or baked anything? I arrive home from being gone for weeks upon weeks and the chocolate cake I baked just before I left is...

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The (Book) Adventure Begins

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Tue, 14 May 2013 09:32:00 +0000

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. – Winston...

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Home Again

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Tue, 07 May 2013 08:26:00 +0000

WASTELAND April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. – T.S. Eliot, The Waste...

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Hook Kids on Fishing for Fish Earth Day

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:33:00 +0000

HOOKED All of a sudden, going fishing wasn’t such an imposition. – Tim McGraw, Live Like You Were Dying Sofia. A tiny handful of a girl, maybe 6 or 7 years old,...

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A Foggy Day in San Francisco

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:34:00 +0000

San Francisco has only one drawback - ’tis hard to leave. – Rudyard Kipling A stroll around the old French Quarter of New Orleans, the weather as hot and steamy as the city’s...

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Plated Stories - An Interlude

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:20:00 +0000

JUST A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS On the heels of a fabulous IACP conference, I just wanted to pause to make a few announcements. An interlude. Things happen that excite, things happen that make one glow...

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IACP CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO Part I

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:20:00 +0000

JUST THE BEGINNING… Lights ! Camera ! Action ! I stared into the camera like a deer in the headlights, frozen and stunned yet knowing that I had to move. I tried to hold my gaze, stay...

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Sèches du Haut-Doubs

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:45:00 +0000

LEAVING ON A JET PLANE Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. – Francis Bacon, Sr. “When are you leaving? In a week?” He...

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Passover Lemon Almond Sponge Cake with Warm Lemon Sauce

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:55:00 +0000

PASSOVER My parents were the model of discreetness. Social, well-known and very involved with our local synagogue, family mealtimes were nonetheless private affairs, the six of us finding...

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Apple Galette

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:30:00 +0000

MELTDOWN Monday Monday, can't trust that day, Monday Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way Oh Monday morning, you gave me no warning of what was to be – The Mamas and The...

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Gâteau à la Crème for Bread Baking Babes

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:18:00 +0000

Vanilla Bean Rum Custard-Filled Brioche Cake There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint. – Mahatma Ghandi That day of the month approached on little winged feet....

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Chocolate Gingerbread Macarons

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:39:00 +0000

Les Petites Faiblesses (those pesky little human weaknesses) Mieux vaut déceler une faiblesse que se laisser soupçonner d'un vice. * - Denis Diderot, Jacques le fataliste et son maître, 1765 -...

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A Very French Mac and Cheese

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:07:00 +0000

MY AMERICAN FOOD ROOTS AND A VERY FRENCH DISH For someone who was always hungry, I never paused between mouthfuls of steamed shrimp and wedges of Indian River oranges long enough to...

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Oven Baked Parmesan Panko Crusted Chicken

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:23:00 +0000

MOMMY DEAREST Mothers are all slightly insane. – J.D. Salinger I remember when another mother of small children – this was quite a number of years ago when my babies were small...

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Chocolate Orange Sponge Cake

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:56:00 +0000

Darkness and Light A lonely person in the middle of a forest. – Henning Mankell in The return of the Dancing Master I stare into my own eyes, at my own face, skin...

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Chairs

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:43:00 +0000

An Object of Desire Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. – Fran...

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Assyrian Spinach Pies

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:09:00 +0000

THE PERSNICKETY ONE EATS I had one of each. Our first son, Clem, was a mother’s dream: he ate everything. From the moment our pediatrician gave us the nod, allowing us to feed him petits pots,...

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Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta & Amaretti Brownies

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:45:00 +0000

Valentine’s Day. Again. Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert Heinlein Valentine’s Day. This evokes a great...

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CRANBERRY ORANGE PECAN MUFFINS

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:37:00 +0000

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to...

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VANILLA BEAN CINNAMON SPONGE BIRTHDAY CAKE

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:29:00 +0000

Writing … frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves,...

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LULU ROUGET & THE BIRTHDAY LUNCH

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:31:00 +0000

Many years ago, a July offered us a month of rainy days. Black and gloomy, no rest for the weary, rain day in, rain day out. Rain, incessant, insistent rain. Yet we awoke that fateful day, the 23rd...

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VISUAL FEAST IV

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:44:00 +0000

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A CITY The sun peeps over the horizon, grasse matinée, watching the sun rise from under the covers we begin our day. The sun rises a little...

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VISUAL FEAST III

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:13:00 +0000

MUSICAL INTERLUDE Music for the eyes, my saunter through my market, a swing through the grocery store and tumbles of cauliflower, watery green enveloping creamy white; heaps of citrus in...

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