My mother didn’t entertain often because my father, a family physician, worked long, long hours (many night’s he’d get home at 10pm after making night calls). But when she did she loved to prepare hors d’oeuvres. A favorite were her asparagus roll ups (we always fought over the leftovers) — steamed fresh asparagus wrapped in [...]
We recently spent the week in Park City, Utah with our grandchildren. Layla, who had just turned 3, went skiing for the first time. It’s amazing how kids manage to make everything look so easy and seem to have no fear. When I asked her to show me how to ski she told me to [...]
Weeknight dinners in the Riven household were always fairly predictable. My mother made the same things over and over. We knew what we were having the minute we walked through the door. The house was filled with aromas. If it was liver or fish, we’d be crabby all evening. If it was spaghetti or sloppy [...]
