November 10, 2014 by collardgreensandscaviar

The heart and soul of my solstice chili

My inspiration started and continues here

My little inspiration pumpkin keeps on inspiring me.

Long after the Halloween festivities, it still sits on my kitchen table emanating a holiday-like aura, showing no signs of atrophy or deterioration. It’s so stalwart and not to mention cute.

It’s often the way things work for me – something simple, something innocuous, something as ordinary as a Jack Be Little Pumpkin ignites a spark of creativity, and off I go. This spontaneity has served me well as a journalist and it has been a great asset as a food blogger. Continue reading →

October 26, 2014 by collardgreensandscaviar

Carving out a treat betwixt the tricks

It’s pumpkin season – applause please.

There’s nothing like sauntering through a pumpkin patch in Los Angeles looking for the perfect pumpkin under sunny skies and 80 degree temperature.

It’s a tough job. But as a native Angeleno, I somehow manage to muscle through it.

Getting my Halloween pumpkin is actually an annual rite of passage into the holiday season. It gets me into that holiday state of mind. This year my pumpkin ranks up there with Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree. It’s small but meaningful to me. I don’t have small children at home anymore so I don’t need the “great pumpkin.” But I always need a little somethin’ somethin’ to inspire me. Continue reading →

July 8, 2014 by collardgreensandscaviar

The little blog that could

From my little kitchen in Los Angeles, California, Collard Greens and Caviar – the blog – was created.

It’s a modest concoction of a little this and that and a few other things. It’s not serious journalism which I’ve practiced most of my career, but it seriously fulfills my journalistic need to write about a subject I love without boundaries or limits. This has been a whirl wind adventure and I’ve never left my laptop or stove top.

Collard Greens and Caviar is certainly the “little blog that could” travel all over the world. It’s gone to countries I’ve never visited and countries I could have never imagined. Continue reading →