Thoughts from a highly domesticated creature in the outer boroughs
Monday, May 17, 2010
Mom and Me in the Ukrainian Weekly
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On Mother's Day this year, I found an article from a 1966 edition of The Ukrainian Weekly that featured my late mother and her rock art...
Saturday, May 1, 2010
84 degrees in the shade. Antidote: Kusmi Be Cool tea, iced.
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Whew! It's a scorcher this first day of May. As we wait for news from the hospital that my dad can come home after angioplasty, I went t...
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Favorite Recipe: Sicilian Pesto
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I used to grow cherry tomatoes on my deck when I had full sun there (neighbors and a red maple have since intervened), and at the end of the...
Favorite Recipe: Cardamom-Pistachio Thins
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I worked a food processing shift at the Park Slope Food Coop yesterday and promised to share some recipes with the people around the table. ...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Velik'den': The Blooming of the Bradford Pear Trees
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"Velik'den" is the Ukrainian word for Easter, but it really means "The Great Day." I like to think that the pre-Chri...
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Pysanky 2010: Freeform Pattern 6
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I've been experimenting this year with making Ukrainian Easter eggs simply by melting the beeswax patty a little and smudging it immedia...
Early Spring, Union Square
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Across the street from my office is an Anthropologie store. They painted their windows with a green leaf design that glows in the angle of s...
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