Marinara Sauce with Heirloom Tomatoes
How this kid fell in love with tomatoes Growing up I felt the same way about raw tomatoes as every other kid—yuck! I slid them out the back of my Burger King Whoppers, and ripped…
Scaring the Sex Back Into Your Life
Flour and Water restaurant in San Francisco’s Mission District is an Aphrodisiac I don’t know what a “normal” amount of sex is? I mean the frequency with which a couple, you know, do it. Is…
Friday Night Decompression
It was amazing just lying there on the chaise; a piece of furniture Jonathan I practically gave birth to considering the nine months of arguing in public we endured before it arrived. There are at…
Leeks and Love – A Romance Begins
Part 1 of 3 This is the first part of a three part series on how I fell in love in San Francisco. To skip ahead read Part 2, or Part 3. It all started back…
The New Year Begins With A Volt
This year, like the past four, Jonathan and I flew back east to celebrate Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) with his family. We typically fly to New York first and spend a few days…
But Grandma! I’m a Vegetarian
I have a lot of fond memories of my grandma Shirley, who’s actually my step-grandmother, but since all my actual grandparents had passed when I was little or before birth, she’s the grandmother I got…
Baby Naming’s Never Been So Complicated
Remember when dreaming up the perfect baby name was fun? I haven’t had to do it myself, but I can just imagine it was a fun task in the 60s and 70s. Young girls in…
Kale Mushroom and Pasta Soup
One of the advantages of living in the Bay Area is that our CSA (community sourced agriculture) service runs all year round. Which is awesome, but that also means that in the fall and winter…