Category: Movable Feast
-
Happy Thanksgiving
Potatoes are being mashed, turkey is being smoked, pies are ready, children are running around, beers and wine poured, mom is busy checking the last details of Thanksgiving lunch, while I quickly type this blog post before I get…
-
Thanksgiving Abroad, Homeland Sweet
Thanksgiving is an American holiday. Thanksgiving celebrates the beginning of life in a new land. The seeds of friendship between two different cultures. The pilgrims and the Indians. The journey of the Mayflower. The need for one another. The…
-
Cracking Walnuts
Whenever we come home, whether it is Sacha, Chelsea or I we always crack and shell walnuts, and we are at it again. Three hours later several bags full. Indian summer, or should I say summer going…
-
Home Made Portuguese Sweet Bread
Home made Portuguese sweet bread, amongst many other things, reminds me of growing up in the rural countryside with my many cousins. Hot from the oven the aroma takes me back: I see my Va and Aunts around the…
-
What Hasn’t Been Happening?
French provencal pottery, you see the piece with the green spot do you know why it is there? When people come over to our home I am afraid if they ask me a question about anything in…