food
I’m Here; You’re There
It's a bit harder this morning to get my head into a recipe for a romantic meal when it's warm—I'm at the coast where the heat wave will be 68 […]
Summer Sizzle III
It's almost the end of July already. How's your summer been? Busy? No time to spend with your favorite person? That's not good, is it? Because if ever a season […]
Summer Heat II
One of my favorite summer treats is cold soup. I have recipes for fruit soup, cold potato and leek soup (vichyssoise), cucumber and lime soup, gazpacho. I love them all. […]
Baby, It’s Hot Outside
Of course it's hot. What do we expect? It's summer. And summer brings heat. It also brings memories of all those warm July and August evenings driving around in convertibles. Going […]
A Dessert From Down Under
Pavlovas are from Australian--or New Zealand--I'll let them figure out where it came from. It's a dessert that looks elegant, tastes delicious and is actually quite simple to make. Not […]
Oh, No, Not Another One!
Yes, I'm afraid so. This is yet another berry blast. I can't help it. I love berry season more than any other time of the year, fruit-wise. I may be […]
Three Little Words
The way my romance novels usually work is this: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl again. Boy says the three little words girl wants to hear, which […]
Why Two Thousand Words Of My New Book Won Over My Blog Entry
My self-imposed deadline for posting a blog entry came and went this week with barely a nod from me. I have an excuse, sort of. I'm participating in the madness […]
What’s Romantic About Halloween?
Depends on how much fun you think it is to dress in costume, eat chocolate and answer the door a few dozen times during dinner. If you like pretending you're Juliet […]
Falling for Autumn
It's a beautiful week ahead the weather forecasters say. Maybe the best weekend of the fall. So, ditch the rake, let the lawn grow another inch or so and wait […]