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Well, the Blue Lake beans have ripened. Maybe I let them go a bit too long, but here they are, in all their green glory, demanding that I cook them.I thought that dry-sauteeing was just the thing, but a quick … Continue reading →

One thing about being in Brooklyn, you can great Kosher take-out. Really the food I’ve been fed at the shiva for Edie Zaetz has been first-rate. Delicious, kosher or not

Tomorrow I make latkes again. This time, I will make baked chicken to go with it, and steam some broccoli, and make leafy veggie stew without artichokes, because my son does not like artichokes, and see how that turns out. … Continue reading →

On the day after Thanksgiving, I showed two of my son’s friends how to make Macaroni and Cheese. Real Mac and Cheese–white sauce, breadcrumbs, baking, the whole deal. It took an hour, as real Mac and Cheese tends to do, … Continue reading →

Made 3 frittatas, with 8 eggs each, for the Staff appreciation brunch Nov. 12. Very healthy. Very low-fat. Very pretty.

I’m still on Weight Watchers. I’ve lost 21 pounds, and I’m sort of stuck on that plateau. But life goes on. I’m VP Hospitality for the Palo Alto PTA Council, and cooked a lot of food for the Staff Appreciation … Continue reading →

I’ve been on Weight Watchers for the past month. I have lost 10 pounds, but lost my will to cook. So, except for meditations on flaxseed meal as a substitute for eggs, and the merits of hummus made with minimal … Continue reading →

Guest Opinion: Working together is not just a robotic thingappeared in the Palo Alto Weekly, April 9, 2008by Preeva Tramiel I am a robot mom. My sons have been building robots for so long it looks like Fry’s, Halted and … Continue reading →

When I was 7, soup came from soup tubes. Not soup CUBES, soup TUBES. That is what my mother called the narrow cylindrical packets of dried grains that Manishewitz (I think) sold. The company called these packages soup mixes, but … Continue reading →

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