Pan- Fried Trout

The family vacations we took with my parents were typically to parks in California.  Sequoia, Yosemite, Mammoth, Big Sur, Lake Tahoe.  They were simple vacations, all within driving distance.  There were eight of us, and we usually stayed in cabins inside the parks, ate in the park concessions, and spent our days hiking or going […]

Micheline’s Creme Caramel

We are standing in the kitchen together again, as we have for more than 50 years, but this time we weren’t in her kitchen.  The location doesn’t seem to matter, we have an easy rhythm that two people share when they are just happy to be together.  Like a duet, effortless, even though we hadn’t […]

Macaroni and Cheese

We get together for so many communal holiday meals and still we plan one more.  At the end of Yom Kippur, after a long and difficult day we have this desire to share another ritual with our friends, breaking the fast.  One would think that people would want to go to their respective homes to […]