Serves 6 Prep time: 30 minutes Corn picks are nice to have, but unless you’re eating in a more formal setting I prefer to do without them. They tend to get thrown away by mistake, and hey, corn on the cob is a naturally messy food. Part of the fun of eating it is having a devil-may-care attitude about the mess.
…Come the simplest yet most satisfying of foods. One of my absolute favorites is corn on the cob. What could be more ordinary, right? Wrong. Like so many things in life, it’s all in the presentation. When I was a kid, we had a corn patch on our farm and I would be sent out on a summer day to pick a couple dozen ears and bring them in for lunch. That was all we would eat – a corn […]
Serves 4 Prep time: 15 minutes *Note: I’d never seen these at the grocery store until this summer, but they are available at both the Whole Foods and our local Safeway, so I don’t think they will be too difficult to find.
Many people I meet seem to have an unquenchable curiosity about life in the White House. They ask what it was really like to be around the President and First Lady, what I wore, how I learned about Protocol, how the menus were created, what the best party was – though more often than not they want to hear about the worst party. (Who doesn’t love a good party disaster story?) So let’s dip into the full White House experience, […]
A funny thing happened on the way to this recipe (if you can call it a recipe – it’s really just a “how to shell a garbanzo bean” story). I wanted to make a crispy, salty chickpea snack to go with the sangria. There are lots of recipes for chickpea snacks out there and I tried several of them with canned chickpeas. They were all… how can I put it? Lousy. Mushy, over-spiced, – nothing I would serve to a […]
