New Kitchen Queen Essay on NPR’s WVTF
Give it a listen! (You have to copy this file into your brown until I can get my hands on the original file.) Has anything like this happened to you?...
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Curiouser and Curiouser, My Pie Adventure In New York City
I’m just back from New York City. A curious place when it comes to so many things—especially pie. The week I was there the New York Times had just come out with an article about pie being the new...
View ArticleFantastic Pie Story
Check out The Onion’s story about pie today. I love it. It sort of reminds me of some of the emails I’ve gotten. Just sayin’.
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Holiday “Black Sheep” Pizzelles
I am sort of the black sheep of my family, the one who had the audacity to move away from Western Pennsylvania. According to my mother, moving away is almost as bad as, oh, I don’t know, having served...
View ArticleRed Velvet Lovey-Dovey Pie for Valentine’s Day
Red velvet is special in the Bryan house. Last year, I made my first red velvet cake from scratch for my husband of now nearly 20 years. Red velvet cake is his favorite. We’ve bought so many of them...
View ArticleFive things you may be surprised to know about me:
1. I don’t bake pie on a daily basis. I never did and probably never will. heh. 2. I took a quilting class when I was 23 and I’ve made 4 quilts in my life. Working on finishing the fifth and...
View ArticleFive things I thought about during my morning run:
1. Looking over some of my garden columns. Yes–I had a garden column at one point for a local paper long out of business. It focused on herbs and herb lore and sometimes I wrote about other things....
View ArticleGarden Dreams
An old garden column on remembering to dream I had such a vivid dream the other night. I dreamed that Emma and I were walking down the beach together. We both had our shoes off and she was squealing...
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Dreams. Recipes. Life. My Grandmother’s Recipe Book.
I come from a long line of savers. Sometimes I curse them for all the things they’ve left behind for me to sort through from time to time, other times I feel incredibly blessed. One tattered blessing...
View ArticleMom’s Brownies
Okay, so as I’m going through my old columns, keying them in and so on, I ran across a mention of my mom’s brownies. Now I am suffering from an intense craving for them. Because I am nursing a horrible...
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