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Matzo Ball Soup and Cooking for Passover
Today I have a guest post from Emily, a dear friend and a fantastic cook. I wanted to do a recipe for Passover this year, and since I did not grow up in the Jewish culinary tradition, I asked Emily to...
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Deviled Eggs with Capers and Parsley
I have vivid childhood memories of dyeing Easter Eggs. We always made my family’s traditional Craftsman flower eggs, but I also spent many a spring break waiting impatiently for the eggs to take on a...
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Sauteed Asparagus with Leeks
Spring has sprung. Sure, I live in LA, where a sunny day could just as easily mean December as it could April. People are always exhibiting various degrees of suntan (usually related to their house’s...
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Savory Baked French Toast Croque Monsieur (with Ham and Cheese)
I don’t really understand the marketing of Mother’s Day. I see all these floral pastel cards and delicate lacy handkerchiefs and early morning breakfast in bed and advertisements for “brunch” and...
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Fancy Rhubarb Parfaits
We are in full on girly mode in the Savour Fare household. The Nuni is two and a half years old, and is seriously interested in the following (in no particular order): twirly dresses, crowns, glass...
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Rice Pudding Pie
I used to be afraid of pie. The rules about cold hands and precise handling, the rolling and the cracking and the patching and the shrinking – it all gave me hives. But now? I’m over it. I can...
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Japanese Ramen Salad
It’s far too cold in Los Angeles this week to even think of having a picnic, or eating a salad. We’ve had rain and fog and nighttime temperatures in the 40′s. I’ve been digging out my thick sweaters...
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Roasted Rhubarb Clafoutis
I have a terrible sweet tooth (as you may have divined if you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time), but my sweet tooth is not typical. Not for me the sweetness overload, the gooey cakes,...
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Meyer Lemon Kale Salad
If you’re eating vegetables for their health benefits, you’d be hard-pressed to find something betthan than kale. Low in calories, full of fiber, and rich in vitamins, A,C and K, it’s commonly...
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Garlic Butter Glazed Carrots with Mint
When I was a kid, we mostly ate salads. My dad was not a vegetable-lover, and with a few notable exceptions (artichokes and asparagus) we primarily consumed our vegetables raw. As a result, I held a...
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Roasted Asparagus with Creamy Tomato Sauce
Nothing really sings of spring like Asparagus. The little stalks, poking up so proudly, and tasting so very green are the essence of all that is springtime. Asparagus was a seasonal vegetable before...
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Finding a Babysitter with Urban Sitter
When we moved to L.A. ten years ago, we were thinking about starting a family, and we wanted to be close to family. This was a smart move on our part – my mom is tremendously helpful with getting the...
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Cookbook Review: Fika and Rhubarb Cordial
I am used to thinking I am an anglophile. And I am a sometimes francophile (which is a heritable trait), but it turns out I am also a raving swedophile. The evidence?I go to Ikea for fun. The...
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Totally Classic Potato Salad
There are certain foods that just scream “summer.” Tomato sandwiches, of course. Corn on the cob. Watermelon. Peach ice cream. And potato salad.Of course, potato salad isn’t necessarily seasonal...
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What I’m Reading – May, June, July 2015
I got seriously behind on these reading posts, and not because I haven’t been reading! A lot of these are new (or new to me) offerings from authors I’ve read before, so it was interesting to compare...
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Eat Like It’s Summertime
There’s no denying it. We are on the last gasp of summer. Children are back in school. Labor day is around the corner. Even in Los Angeles, where the heat will continue for a month or two, the...
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What I’m Reading: Cookbooks!
I know I am late on another What I’m Reading post (and a lot of other things) but I thought I’d do a roundup of some other fun reading I’ve been doing/using lately – Cookbooks! I thought I’d give you...
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My Latest Obsessions
Temperamentally, I tend towards moderation. I like to vary my menus, I rarely binge-watch TV shows, I don’t wear the same clothes, or the same shoes, every day. There are a few things that catch my...
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Things that are important
My father would have turned 69 last weekend. Sixty nine doesn’t seem that old to me – my grandmother is ninety three and still going strong – but in January, it will be five years since we lost him.I...
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Stocking Stuffing for Grownups
Christmas morning has always had a very specific progression in our household. At some godawful early hour of the morning, the children wake up the parents (or, in my case, since my dad was always up...
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