It’s been a year since I posted on this blog. When I began to write this blog post, I thought about a song from my childhood – A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke. One of the lines in the song says, “It’s been a long time coming but I know a change is…
Top Chef’s Challenging Day In Singapore
There’s one more episode before we find out who will be Season 7′s Top Chef. There was no “drama” during Season Finale Part 1, but the judges said this episode produced the best food of the season. In last night’s episode, the cheftestants arrived in Singapore and immediately toured a variety of famous food cart…
Michael C. Wins Again on Project Runway
Hooray for Michael C’s second win on Project Runway. This design challenge was to transform an ugly bridesmaid dress into a fashion forward design that the owner (or viewer) would want to wear again. Each designer had a $50 budget to spend at Mood. Michael took a bland bridesmaid dress and transformed it into a…
Tiffany Won’t Make Top Chef Trip to Singapore
It’s down to the final four and Tiffany didn’t make Top Chef’s cut to travel to Singapore. This year’s final four are Kevin, Kelly, Ed and Angelo. In previous seasons I had a clear favorite going into the finale but this year I don’t. When Top Chef was down to five cheftestants, I thought any…
J.D. Robb’s Immortal In Death
In a previous post I mentioned that I started reading J. D. Robb’s In Death Series about two years ago. Unfortunately, I started near the latter part of the series. My goal this year was to go back to the beginning to see how the series started and how relationships between the characters developed. Last…
Tim Gunn’s Outburst on Project Runway
OK, outburst is a rather strong word, but in consideration of Tim Gunn’s usual non-confrontational approach to the contestants’ behavior, that’s the way it came across. What Tim actually did was chastise the losing team for their behavior during judging. It was a well deserved chastisement that my mother would have called it a “good…
Six Year Job Search Leads To New Career Path
In May 2004 my husband, Fred, took mandatory early retirement. He was working for a Fortune 500 company as a senior account manager when his division was sold to another company. Like most of those transactions, it resulted in duplicate jobs. Fred, like so many other people in his group who qualified and were were…
Welcome to my kitchen
Welcome to Valerie's Kitchen. I'm a home cook who loves to eat, cook and collect recipes. All of the recipes posted here have been tested on family, friends and co-workers - each one, a very willing participant. I hope you'll come back and follow my kitchen adventures.
