Tag Archives: kitchen

Bottom Line: Needing to scale back my eating

Time to order some stretch pants, perhaps? Looks like it, unfortunately, from all angles. I’m not counting on a close friend to tell me this, because I know this firsthand, and for a fact, too. It’s been several months since I’ve seen the better side of 160 pounds. I started this pseudo-cooking blog almost six […]

Newbie cook self-reports: I’m a ding-a-ling no more!

“Why was I such a ding-a-ling all these years?” My mother hesitated. Maybe, before she responded the other day, she was considering in which way I was presenting myself as a ding-a-ling this time. (There are several possibilities). I meant, why did I never bother with cooking until now, when I’m 56? I mean, really! […]

My all-new kitchen calls for an all-new attitude

My small house in Lubec was built in 1950. But the old-fashioned, 1940s-style stove that came with my kitchen wasn’t my style when I moved in, back in June 2012. Friends who saw my stove, fell in love with my stove. Not me, though. They all saw more possibilities for the definitely retro stove than […]

How lobster rolls cost me my seat in the Legislature

My public admission two weeks ago about my decision to learn to cook at 56, had its perils. Should I share the fact, beyond my inner circle, that I have never put a meal on the table for others? That would mean letting on to all my friends, enemies and frenemies, as well as the […]

Making “Joy of Cooking” part of my life, even at 56

“Joy of Cooking” served as the go-to cookbook for our parents’ and even grandparents’ generations. So it was a natural birthday present for me from my father many years ago. The copy I still have carries his hand-written note: “For Katherine, on your 27th birthday. Know that the way to a man’s heart is through […]