I took a long walk with a dear friend this morning and he commented that of all the words to crystallize the meaning of friendship, solidarity is perhaps the best. So this week’s post is an Ode to Solidarity. As Laurence J. Peter said so wisely, ‘you can always tell a real friend: when you’ve […]
Tag: pudding
Rice pudding in stilettos
I’ve known how to make my Granny’s rice pudding forever. It was the first recipe I could recite by heart, not counting the Fried Bread Coated in Tomato Ketchup I created as a six year old to earn my Hostess Badge in the Brownies. Granny hated being old enough to be called anything other than […]
Polenta and pear crossover deluxe
Lemon polenta cake means it’s birthday time in our house. A sack of polenta has a solid heft; plump, sturdy and chirpily yellow. You could have a good pillow fight with a bag of polenta. But, birthdays aside, sometimes a pudding is what you need. So this is my polenta cake/pear pudding crossover deluxe. I’ve […]