“Maybe you should ask someone who would really appreciate it,”” I tell Jane. She’s inviting me to her cooking class, taught by the chef at L’Auberge Carmel, one of Carmel’s most elegant and renowned restaurants. Jane’s cooking skills are so far out of my league; I’m not even playing the same sport. I did take […]
Girls Gone Greek
Lately people tell me my blog-life sounds like one big party. Which is pretty ironic. I might be partly a party animal but I’m not exactly living in a party town. Actually that’s been one of the hardest parts of learning to live in a small town. Especially this small town—where they roll up the […]
Chocolate lovers: you owe me for this
Normally I don’t get excited about cooking. I’m also notoriously poor at following through on anything. But I wasn’t about to let anything stand in the way of me and something chocolate. Voila! Here is the recipe, direct from Jamie Jarrard, the pastry chef at the Post Ranch Inn who created that amazing dessert I […]
chocolatus interruptus
When I was growing up I remember learning the expression for bad girls—who tease boys, and then don’t follow through. I was always warned not to tease; to be a good girl; and I took these warnings seriously. I also take chocolate seriously. But after the P .S. in yesterday’s post, I feel like […]
Just desserts
I’m still on dessert. But this time, much closer to home. Just 30 miles down the coast. I spent a beautiful day in Big Sur with Trudy, Cynthia and Myra— celebrating birthdays. Trudy’s is today. Mine….is….not today. Two months after the fact, after the excess of August, you’d think I’d be embarassed about this […]
Too strange for words…..
….but I think a few are needed anyway…….to explain this latest sign from the universe. I’ve mentioned my friend Susan…how our kids went to pre-school together in Los Angeles 20 years ago and we recently discovered we live a few blocks apart in Carmel…. I posted something she wrote on her birthday and a painting […]
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