My cousin Andy has always been known in the family as a world traveler. We never knew whether he would show up for Thanksgiving or Christmas, often he would be in Thailand or Vietnam or China instead. The times he did make an appearance, the food he brought with him would be stunningly [...]
My friend Una is getting married this Saturday. She spent years looking for the right guy, many time despairing that she would never find him. Then, a couple of months after her 35th birthday, she spotted a guy on match.com who resonated with her. She sent him an email, they went out and soon after, [...]
Make sure to check out the edition of the Philadelphia Weekly that hits the streets tomorrow, as there is a story in there about my Reading Terminal Market blogging project. I was both taken aback and flattered that they were interested in doing a story about me so early into the project, but I’m hoping [...]
When I was 22, I spent the summer in Indonesia. While I was there, I took a two-day bus trip across the island of Java. We started out in Jakarta and made our way over to Bali. Somewhere towards the end of our time on the bus, but before we rode the ferry that took [...]
For the last couple of months I’ve been dropping hints that I had a new project in the works. Finally, after a fairly slow start, it is launched and I am happy to present to you Stories from Reading Terminal Market.
I will be spending a considerable amount of time at Reading Terminal over the next [...]
I have found that there are certain things in life that I only eat alone. Take the dinner I made myself tonight when I got home from class. I sauteed a very small onion with a few roughly chopped cloves of garlic (that by itself keeps the non-garlic lovers away). When they were starting to [...]
I am big fan of the potluck. Getting together with friends to share a couple of hours and a meal is one of my favorite things to do. Over the years, I’ve developed a stable of reliable potluck recipes, but this one is my very favorite. It is easy to throw together, [...]
I volunteered to make some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the kids at an after-church lunch on Sunday*. I went to Trader Joe’s this afternoon to buy the makings and ended up buying some white bread for those kids who are exceptionally picky eaters. As I stood in line, I felt the [...]
I was nearly 21 years old before I learned that you could roast asparagus. There was a lot of asparagus in my life leading up to that point, but I had only encountered it steamed or boiled. It was one of my grandma Bunny’s go-to veggies and made many an appearance at holiday [...]
If you are still struggling with how to use up the last of those multi-colored hard boiled eggs that are languishing on the bottom shelf of your fridge, check out this episode for tips on how to make a basic egg salad and then spice it up.
My sister ate the last of it for breakfast [...]
