Recipes – Page 6 – The Well-Cooked Life

It’s official; I am now in touch with everyone I have ever met. It used be that people lost touch.

I’m the kind of baker who likes the load a bunch of foodstuffs in a bowl and see what happens.

It is an unwritten rule that if your partner or spouse goes away for any period of time, the children

4-year-old Will and 12-year-old Jamie and I rode the T into downtown Boston this weekend. The journey, as they say,

Some recipe are borne of genius. Some, like this one, are borne of sheer laziness. What, you’ve never been enamored

Have I mentioned that I love a good yard sale? That flea markets are second only to food and farmer’s

At the family bbq, our kids were nosing around the yard, digging in the dirt and becoming fast friends as

Confession: I am not southern. I am not even semi-southern. But I harbor deep fantasies about being whisked away and

When I go to Mexico to visit my old friend, Cristina, I like to help her milk goats, eat the

I used to get around a little. One time here, another there. Always the dream of what the next guy

When was spinning a craze? I remember my older brother converting to the religion of spin class somewhere in the

Perhaps you’re familiar with Newfoundlands as a breed. Maybe you read Peter Pan (in the original book, Nana is a

My 12-year-old holds a heart in his hands. “Do you like the blue?” he asks. We’re in Venice, a place

“How do you roast a chicken?” my housemate asked. We were living in a small house on the outskirts of

This is a classic southern Italian dessert, though my favorite time to eat this is in the morning. I especially

Cheese & One Reason I Miss Italy

This is just the cheese platter I would serve each day at lunch… Did I mention that in the (lost)

I’ve loved some restaurants in my life. Some remain, some have since closed, turned over into other eateries or morphed

So there’s this old New England tale – the kind that gets passed along from one old fisherman to another,

Upon our return from Italy last night we realized a few things: we are tired, which is silly considering we

For my father’s birthday, he asked for a fruit dessert. This is partly because he has always loved tarte tatin