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Jul. 7, 2009 2:01 pm
Updated: Jul. 13, 2009 11:02 am
Where cherries are concerned, it's hard for me to behave. Their short season signals the start of California's summer, and for me it's the beginning of a mad, annual affair. Each year I try to be coy and nibble just a few, but I end up eating way past polite capacity, lips and fingers purple…
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Cooking: collects my thoughts, calms me down, makes me feel rich, is my favorite way to share with my friends and care for myself and others. I always know that I like someone when I feel the urge to cook for them.
My favorite things to cook
Warm and comforting dishes. I am a soup maven. I love making soups from from scratch or doctoring something store bought by adding fresh ingredients.
My favorite family cooking traditions
My mother made great spaghetti sauce - basic, long-simmered beef and tomato.
My cooking triumphs
Helping to cook for the thousands left homeless by the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
My cooking tragedies
Attempting Baked Alaska in a small apartment oven in the midst of a blistering Washington D.C. summer. We ate it despite the fact that it looked more like a volcano than an iceberg - all the meringue had slipped down the sides of the ice cream mound. It was still quite tasty - I should have just changed the name to Baked Hawaii.
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