Vacance

My eight-hour flight to France  made me feel like an aging sardine; dry, brittle, and salty. Also, awfully eager to slip into a tub of water. But by the next day, luxuriating in Cassis, well, I was on vacation. More, I was vacationing in a country where citizens...

Avocado Soup

This soup isn’t a recipe per say, but simply  a few basic ingredients  and flavors whirred in my blender and garnished simply. A guest requested the recipe and I jotted it down. Chilled avocado And cucumber soup 1 cucumber, peeled and deseeded. 1 avocado peeled and...

Summer Treats

The July sweltering heat has me churning gelato and sorbet. Recently I have been searching for tips on making the Mexican popsicles known as "paletas." Passion (or obsession) for iced desserts has even has led me to buy a scale for weighing precise amounts...