The Bayshore Diner was the full-service restaurant in the Westin San Francisco Airport when I opened the hotel in 1988. It was a ’50s-themed diner with black and white checked floors, Wurlitzer Jukebox, and hostesses in poodle skirts and roller skates. T...
I made a bean salad the other day with dried beans I had picked up down at Reading Terminal Market. Real simple – soak beans overnight, cook, drain, make stuff. I also had some dried fava beans that were a gift, so I decided to soak those as well ̵...
I am pretty certain my 23 and Me Ancestry is wrong. I’m Sicilian – pale, peeling, cancer...
I had no idea when I walked into the kitchen what I was going to make for dinner. I had gone grocery...
Avanzi di pane means leftover bread in Italian. At least, it does by Bing translate standards. Googl...
We started taking down Christmas, today. It was 2°F outside – absolutely no reason to step ou...
Sometimes the simplest dishes are the best. Two things Nonna dislikes – and we really like ...
Just about any night around here can be pasta night, but I went to bed last night thinking of pasta,...
It’s the garden that keeps on giving – and it really hasn’t even started, yet! Whi...
I had a bit of an unexpected day off from work, today – I had to get nasty cancerous things cu...
We don’t often eat spicy foods, anymore. Nonna doesn’t care for the heat and I’m u...
I told myself I was going to go to Reading Terminal Market once a month – and actually was doi...
I was perusing a few of the websites I have linked to this, this morning, and came upon a recipe I ...
It’s 70-something degrees outside on the last day of Summer. Time to make some beans. I was u...
