I open the side door of our house and a waft of good smells greets me -- the yeasty goodness of fresh baked bread, Sunday-dinner richness of balsamic baked chicken, exotic tang of Croatian sausages, sweet goodness of blueberry tarts. Molly B is in the house and, like Beauty and the Beast's Be Our Guest, [...]
One of the best things about your children growing up and leaving home is that every moment you get to spend with them thereafter feels like a gift. Another best thing is seeing them stretch themselves in ways you could not even have imagined. I enjoyed both when my daughter Molly came home this past [...]
In a scene that could have taken place 100 years ago, or five thousand miles away, Molly and her friend Kaelah spent a delicious Sunday afternoon making burek, a savory Eastern European pastry. As they chatted happily and stretched dough across our dining room table, I thought about the shared joy of meal preparation and [...]
Did you ever pop into a bakery to buy a single treat and walk out with a dozen? That's what happened to me Wednesday afternoon when I popped into Whisk and Arrow to buy a friend of mine an after school snack. Tucked away on a busy street in a building that, ironically, used to [...]
My youngest daughter turns 20 today and we marked the occasion earlier this week by sharing a couple of pints of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and a fascinating episode of Chef's Table. Maybe we should have met the occasion of a young woman exiting her teens and an old mother marking the official end [...]