Tag: Cynara

  • Weekend Parties and Their Gardens

    This last weekend I attended two parties. One was a 60th birthday for my former employer, and as you can see, he has a thing for pink flamingos. Both of the homeowners are colorful people so it’s been fun helping them out in their garden during the past few years. Then on Sunday I attended…

  • Carduni aka Cardoons

    Uncle Joe didn’t live long enough to eat the fried little treats, but nevertheless, that summer, we ate the carduni without him. He had been so excited to hear about my wonderful Sicilian-American husband, a non-relation from California, of good Sicilian ancestry of course, that the fact that he was also a trained cook was…