Nutmeg's Spice of Life

Announcing Nutmeg Kitchens Handcrafted Seasonings! Nutmeg Kitchens Handcrafted Seasonings is the newest offering from my kitc...

I used to love it. The steam from the bowl as it rose up to my nostrils; the creamy warmth just a spoonful away; the green, floatin...

In my last blog post, I mentioned Elsie, our housekeeper, and wrote that I couldn’t remember the meals she had prepared for us while my mot...

I don’t know where it came from – Depression-era frugality or a strange organizational compulsion – but my mother had the oddest habit of t...

I grew up in a Southern California track home neighborhood that bordered what we would now call semi-rural development- larger parcels of la...

Oh, the lowly parsley. Some of us have only encountered it in its curly form, accompanied by a wizened orange slice, as a garnish on the pl...

It is hot, just plain hot, and I am not singing along with Buster Poindexter . It’s hot here in the Bay Area! And I do not like hot, at le...