by Judy Alter | May 30, 2022
Cooking and writing take up much of my day, and I enjoy both, am grateful to be able to fill my days as I do. But lately I’ve thought of some similarities between the two. If you follow my food blog, “Gourmet on a Hot Plate,” you know that I’m an old-fashioned cook,...
by Judy Alter | Apr 4, 2022
Traditional Borscht Our country and the entire world—well, most of it—is reeling in horror at pictures coming out of Bucha, the suburb of Kyiv recently retaken by Ukrainian forces and abandoned by would-be Russian conquerors, who left behind a trail of atrocities—a...
by Judy Alter | Feb 26, 2022
The national flower of Ukraine Cold, wet days have become the norm this winter, and today was yet another one. I so wanted to crawl into my bed and hide there, and I did take a longer nap than usual, just because I was so warm and cozy. I just might slip back into bed...
by Judy Alter | Sep 27, 2021
Tonight’s light suppercopying my mom’s salmon supper Monday’s child may be fair of face, as the nursery rhyme tells us, but she also is hard at work, at least this one was. At least that’s the way it was around my cottage today. The wonderful Zenaida came...
by Judy Alter | Sep 6, 2021
Last night Christian cooked a roast for us. He likes recipes that he can start in the crockpot in the morning and let simmer all day, though he often gets behind himself in the finishing touches—tonight it was getting the dripping to thicken. He finally put them in a...
by Judy Alter | Aug 28, 2021
Jordan’s chicken Caesar wraps AS we go through life, I think all of us develop little rituals. I’ve thought about this a lot lately because some are so repetitive they annoy me—sometimes when I brush my teeth in the morning, I think with a sigh that it just has...
