Herbs for Mole Verde and Pepian

    Preparations for tomorrow’s Mexican Cooking Live with Zarela have been intense but fun. I spent hours on the telephone with Dell and Time Warner upgrading my service  to get sufficient bandwidh to broadcast a clear picture. Dell had to readjust my...

Desiderata – Violeta

  Okay, so I said I’d never be that way, that I had no interest in being a grandmother that I’d never gush and feel about to burst from pride and love for the  extraordinary being that is my granddaughter Violeta.  She always manages to surprise but...
19 ways to cook squash blossoms

19 ways to cook squash blossoms

Photo by Manu Bastien www.manuphotos.com When people ask me about the most memorable dish I ever ate, for some inexplicable reason I wax poetic about a squash blossom stuffed with a duxelle of wild mushrooms of Provence, with their jus as the only sauce, that I had at...