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On Motherhood: Mango and Quinoa Salad
I never thought I would have children. I felt somewhat detached from my siblings in our early days, even though all three of us were born within four years. I learned to read when I was four, and was...
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Bristol Farms, Westwood, Grand Re-Opening
Photo by Vickie McCorkendale You can send me to Tiffany’s and I’d probably meander around the aisles for a few moments just to show good graces before exiting in haste with sighs of relief. On the...
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Are You Ready for Your Teens to Start Driving? IGottaDrive Online Driver’s Ed...
This is a sponsored post with Mums the Word Network and IGottaDrive. All opinions are my own. I started learning how to drive when I was a senior in high school, back in Yugoslavia. I passed the...
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Cole Train: German Braised Red Cabbage
I have been on a serious German kick lately. Our eternally blue California skies become speckled with fleecy white clouds and I start thinking stews, and dumplings, and root vegetables. I talk to my...
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The Magic of Sharing: Serbian Creamy Chicken Soup
No matter how many times I tell myself that I am a competent home cook, it takes only a well-intentioned, but misplaced comment from one of my girls to make me roll my eyes in disbelief and grind my...
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Korean Pear and Tuscan Kale Salad
As the Fall firmly takes a hold even in southern California, at least judging by the calendar, the last brave specimens of the late summer fruit slowly retreat and surrender the coveted shelf space to...
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Seared Duck Breast with Korean Pear Sauce
My mother grew up in Vojvodina, the part of the country that was under the Austro-Hungarian rule until the end of WWI. When she married my father and joined him in central Serbia, she brought with her...
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