Did everyone have a nice Thanksgiving? Lots of turkey? Made a dent in the leftovers yet? That’s good. At my Thanksgiving, I had these nuts. Of course the usual suspects were eaten at the feast as well. But these cashews were a favorite part of hors d’oeuvres hour. (Which of course happened at 3:30 PM, […]

Back in California, what seems like eons ago, I used to do some catering. It’s not something that I do an awful lot of in my new life as a cookbook writer, but I would. And well, this past weekend, I did. There was a couple in my neighborhood getting married. They shunned the usual, […]

A little while ago I was on QVC. And it was wild. A few months ago, my publisher informed me that QVC host David Venable was interested in my cookbook. Would I be interested in going on-air to sell it with him? Um. Blink. Blink. My answer was, of course, yes. So, a few Wednesdays […]

I never really liked rice pudding, that was until I discovered that it wasn’t really the rice, or the pudding part that didn’t float my boat. It was the raisins. Enter this updated rice pudding with dried apricots. It hits the spot– delicately sweet, perfectly wobbly, and a tanginess from the apricots. I love this […]

Today, it seems like everyone has an iPad, or a smart phone, or at the very least a laptop. If you want the answer to something you simply Google it, and in a matter of millionths of a second, you have pages (electronically speaking, of course) of answers. It’s instant gratification. The same holds true […]