We’re in Tennessee visiting my mother in law, and when she showed me her mother’s old box of recipes I couldn’t resist opening it and scouring the clipped and hand written recipes collected on a Virginia farm in the 1940s and 1950s. Tomato aspics, Pineapple Cheese salad, and French Fried Onions fried in one inch…
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Seriously delicious Chocolate Buttermilk Cake
I’m getting our house ready for sale. While not a lot of fun, it is satisfying to purge all that extraneous Stuff. But it’s SO easy to get distracted. Like when I tackled the stacks of magazines on my night side table last week. It was an easy chore. Put all the magazines in a…
Chocolate soufflé
A story unto itself. A satisfying end to a Sunday family dinner. I made this chocolate soufflé from a recipe in my old, tattered copy of Fannie Farmers. I added more chocolate. Of course. It’s not as difficult as it sounds. Search for the Julia Child within you. You can make soufflé, too! Ingredients3 ounces…
When life gives you lemons: Lemon Cake
Life has taken some interesting twists and turns over the last six months. So I’m trying to adopt a when life gives you lemons, make lemonade attitude. As it happens, we have three lemon trees. Here’s one of them: It’s full of fruit that smells of lemony fresh spring. The lemons come in all shapes….
Breakfast cookies: Best school day breakfast
School day breakfasts are tough. As a child I used to mix my own glass of chocolate milk with Nestle Quick and off I’d go. I’ve never liked cereal. That made sleepovers difficult because my friends’ parents always wanted me to eat cereal. Or worse, hot cereal. There’s nothing worse than porridge for breakfast. So I’m…
Strawberry crisp: A taste of summer in winter
I bought a three pack of fresh strawberries at the farmer’s market. I was yearning for a bite of summer in winter and these strawberries tasted of warm sun. After I brought them home I realized we wouldn’t be able to eat them all before they started getting mushy. Given my obsession with all things…
Chocolate chip and M&M cookies in a heart
I’m a little Valentined out today. I spent five hours making Valentine cards with the girls. They each had to make twenty-seven homemade cards. I cut out a zillion hearts. Okay, maybe more like two hundred. Every year around the end of January I start saying to the girls: “Let’s get started on the Valentine…
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These are my stories about surviving Hollywood, parenting two girls, and relocating to Las Vegas from Los Angeles, all while consuming a lot of chocolate. -
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