A week of posts about great hosts wouldn’t be complete without a recipe from Laura Bush. I learned a tremendous amount about hospitality when I worked for her. There was no detail too small to consider, to make her guests feel comfortable and special, and she never stopped thinking about it. Once, when we were hosting a group of Lincoln scholars at a lecture at the White House on Lincoln’s Birthday, she called me over during the lecture and asked […]
There are some classic American foods that I revere: cheeseburgers, pizza, fried chicken – and pot roast. They’re found in restaurants everywhere, but it’s less easy to find the most delicious version of these classics. That’s why when I make something as basic as a pot roast, I want to lavish the freshest ingredients and the most thoughtful preparation on it to make it the best pot roast ever. If you’re going to enjoy a classic, shouldn’t it be worthy […]
In my ongoing quest to keep my husband losing weight (20 down, 20 pounds to go – and let’s not talk about my weight loss plan, if you don’t mind), I’ve been sending him to work with lunches from home to help keep him on the diet train. Taking your lunch to work is not a wildly exciting premise, unless the food is unique, or at least packaged in a way that is novel. Here are three lunch entrees that […]
Going back to school after a long, fun-filled summer can be an adjustment for kids, and one of the ways I used to make my girls excited about it was to shop for school supplies together. They had so much fun choosing notebooks and pencils, and thinking about what they might need for the coming year that they had never needed before: construction paper, mechanical pencils – maybe a new backpack? I thought it was good for them to begin […]
There never seems to be enough time in the morning to sit down and have a proper breakfast, the way the Cleaver family used to in “Leave it to Beaver.” You know, June in her shirtwaist and pearls layering perfect pancakes onto Wally and the Beav’s plates as they talk about what a swell school year it’s going to be, and Beaver worries that Wally won’t invite him to his hamburger party, while Eddie Haskell tells June that she’s looking […]
