Give Pumpkins a Chance
Of course this goes for all sorts of other ingredients, too. I’m just working on a pumpkin cookbook and I’m finding people that say they don’t like pumpkin, but seem to love my non-pumpkin pie experiments.
Of course this goes for all sorts of other ingredients, too. I’m just working on a pumpkin cookbook and I’m finding people that say they don’t like pumpkin, but seem to love my non-pumpkin pie experiments.
I listen to a lot of radio, and therefore, a lot of radio commercials. My current favorite is for Cingular. A young man seeks the secret of happiness from a “master on the mountain.” It turns out that the secret to happiness is switching to the Cingular Nation plan and never standing on the left…
Hmm. Autumn is officially here. I love the Fall — the perfect time to harvest pumpkins and play with them. Make them into spooky works of art to decorate your front porch. Bake them into rich, warm (and sometimes chilly) sides, meals and desserts. Now that I live in an area with clearly delineated seasons,…
Did you know that 1 tablespoon of semi-sweet chocolate chips is 70 calories? That’s about 22 to 24 chips, barely a handful! I had no idea. When I used to snack on chocolate chips, I’d have 64 at a time. That’s about 380 non-filling calories. What a waste. Despite all that, I agree with the…
What a funny adjective to use to describe me. I don’t really think I “rock.” I’m much too ordinary for that. I’m a geek, a dork and sometimes even a fuddy duddy. So it always amuses me when someone tells me that I “rock.” I know its just a compliment, but it seems so out…
At this point, I’ve had several guests on The Genre Traveler Podcast who have collaborated on projects with another writer. These included a mother-son team, a horror writer, and a duo writing under a single pen name. I once collaborated on a very short story during a summer school class and remember that it was…
I saw my first live firefly last night. It was really cool. I had always imagined that the light they blinked would be greenish yellow, like that glow-in-the-dark paint. But it is not — it is bright fire orange yellow. For the short while that they were blinking their lights, it was like Christmas outside….