Archive for the 'fast food' Category
It’s the Great Pumpkin Pancake, Charlie Brown
October 30th, 2009by Caroline
Today after school we will finally carve all the pumpkins that have been sitting on our front stoop this month. I’ll save the seeds, to toast and eat during a post-dinner showing of It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and then I’ll need a quick dinner that doesn’t add much to the general pumpkiny [...]
Summer in a Jar: Salsa Verde
October 19th, 2009by Caroline
We’re almost past the time, here in California, when we can stock up on extra produce at the farmer’s market to store away for the winter. There are some tomatoes coming still, but I’ve got about as many as I can handle, cooked into sauce and tucked into the freezer, next to a few [...]
One more post about ice cream
August 26th, 2009by Caroline
It was a hot day. We’d been exploring the Storm King Art Center by foot and by tram; we had picnicked and sculpted and now it was time to refill our water bottles and drive home. We could see, near the water dispenser, a vending machine with ice creams. OK, we told the boys, [...]
Summer Traditions: The Red Rooster
August 23rd, 2009by Caroline
Thirty-seven years ago my family moved back from Japan to the States, to a town eighty miles away from my maternal grandparents, and a tradition was born. Because halfway between my grandparents’ house and the one in which I grew up, in Brewster, New York, stands The Red Rooster, a hamburger and ice cream [...]
The Expedient Picnic
July 14th, 2009by Caroline
Eating with kids is often all about expediency, and so although it was difficult, in Oxford, to set aside my romantic, Evelyn Waugh-inspired visions of country picnics, I have been at this long enough to know that when the kids are hungry, they need to eat. Now.
So we make or purchase nice sandwiches, [...]
Ode to the British Sandwich
July 12th, 2009by Caroline
I love sandwiches. Although I will eat a nice salad for lunch, or keep you company with Thai noodles or a rice bowl, just as breakfast is cereal for me, all I ever really want for lunch is a sandwich. In Paris, the sandwich is all about the baguette–as it should be, of course; [...]
And Only in Legoland, Windsor
July 6th, 2009by Caroline
As Lisa made clear with her post last week, the rules are different on vacation. We stay up later, sleep in (or so we hope), and we indulge in sweet treats and extra snacks — and so it is for the kids, too.
Now I’ve always been a milk shake and ice cream girl, but [...]
Kohr’s Frozen Custard
July 2nd, 2009by Lisa
One of the iconic things about any childhood is ice cream, and we had a local shop in my home town that had no rivals, but when we went down the shore we always flocked to Kohr’s Frozen Custard stand on the boardwalk. In 1919 the Kohr’s brothers pioneered soft serve style ice [...]
Simple.
May 1st, 2009by Lisa
In 1854 Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Our life is frittered away by detail” and called for “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a milion count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. ”
It’s good advice [...]
Cooking Without a Kitchen
April 28th, 2009by Lisa
My friend Alicia and her husband like to eat. They also have 4 children, ranging in age and appetite from preschool to high school.
They are also renovating their kitchen, which, like most major renovations, is taking longer than anticipated. So, when I ran into her this weekend, Alicia said, only half-joking, “You should [...]