Sara Foster’s Southern Kitchen: Spring Pea Toasts with Lemon Olive Oil and Fresh Pea Shoots

Mache and Avocado Salad with Tortilla Strips

This salad, from the August 2007 issue of Bon Appetit, has been one of my favorites for a long time.  As you can guess, it is a great accompaniment to a Mexican main dish.  Use it as a bed for leftover fajita chicken, or shrimp or pork and it becomes a main dish on...
Sara Foster’s Southern Kitchen: Spring Pea Toasts with Lemon Olive Oil and Fresh Pea Shoots

French Bread Pizza

Children, in the 1970s when I was growing up things were different.  As I’m sure you’ve heard, we had 3 t.v. stations, drank Tab, and rode around in gigantic cars with unused seat belts.  But did you know that they sold cigarettes in vending machines, and...
Sara Foster’s Southern Kitchen: Spring Pea Toasts with Lemon Olive Oil and Fresh Pea Shoots

Grateful for the Cooking of Others

Some of you know that my husband, Charles Gerlach, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a bike race on October 1st when he collided with another cyclist (wearing his helmet as he always does). He was rushed to a nearby hospital with an excellent trauma center and went...