Paris with kids is easier than you think. Armed with an iPad and kid-friendly snacks, the flight from LAX to Paris flew by (it helped that Gigi and I sacked out for about four hours). And despite the fact that she had bronchitis the entire two weeks we were in France, she was a trooper. […]
I’m convinced I lack the gene responsible for allowing one to successfully beat egg whites into a frenzy. Today was the second time in as many months that I dutifully watched Julia Child whip egg whites into peaks. I refused to move my eyes for even a moment, barely allowing myself the right to blink […]
I continue to use the heat as an excuse to keep out of the kitchen, but nothing makes a girl want to grill like Labor Day weekend. Or at least, nothing makes a girl want to ask her guy to grill like Labor Day weekend. (After all, someone needs to be in the kitchen mixing […]
This is not so much a recipe as it is a plea to enjoy the last heavenly days of summer. San Diego is heating up again but the breeze that sweeps in from the coast makes up for it. Little GG went back to school today, sparkling in sequins from skirt to shoes, with a […]
Julia Child would have turned 100 on Wednesday. She died in 2004, just two days before her 92nd birthday. According to PBS Food, her last meal was French onion soup. The first – and only time – I attempted French onion soup it tasted like something I envision a medieval prisoner slurping up deep within […]
Before our trip to France last month, I decided to start experimenting with some of the food we’d discover along the way. As my mind wandered into French fantasy food land, I experienced visions of dining on gluten-free sole meunière, popping over to Marseille with our six-year-old to slurp up bouillabaisse, and consuming bottle after […]
Today is a day for swimming in pools with friends, lazing in the sun and sipping iced tea jazzed up with mint. But at 80 degrees – and we’re talking indoors, here – it’s definitely not a day for cooking. But a girl and her family have to eat, right? Which is why I made […]
The other night, as I was making taco seasoning from scratch and posting it all over Instagram like it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, I realized I owe you an apology. About the taco seasoning post I did awhile back, and the fact that I left you in the lurch, asking you to click […]
Summer is here! Yes, I know, it’s “here” for you, most likely for a month or so at this point. But San Diego suffers from May Gray and June Gloom so when I say summer is now here, I mean the gloom is gone, the sun is out and there are sun burns to be […]