I’ve really tried lately to simplify things in hopes of keeping my head above water long enough to make strides in this crazy chaos of life. Naturally, cooking is an area that can spare some serious minutes. I tend to start mulling over dinner ideas early in the day pondering either what we have on hand and how I can turn it into something fabulously edible, or, I am daydreaming about the random idea to strike my fancy. Both scenarios can end up swallowing up my whole day and night and leave us eating dinner at 10pm with a pile … Continue reading →

Nine years ago my husband (then boyfriend) and I moved to Denver from San Francisco to help look after my dad who had been on a roller coaster of crazy medical predicaments for quite a while. My two sisters had been sharing duties of balancing doctor appointments, hospital runs, conflicting medical advice, piles of pills, some odd roommates he’d acquired, his dog and dental disasters among other things. I had been taking a trip about every month to visit him during the summer of ’02 when he’d been in and out of the hospital, a nursing home, and bouncing back … Continue reading →

A lot of meals we eat end up happening just because we had the ingredients while some are crazy inspirations that strike me that I simply must fulfill. I’ll attribute this, like many of my food traits, to my dad. He would sit in his office or at his seat at the kitchen, most likely in his boxer shorts (sun or snow) and swallow books whole. For hours on end, night after night, he’d sit on some of the most uncomfortable seats we had which was odd for an old man with a bony butt. But he’d sit and read … Continue reading →