Daily Archives: April 11, 2011

Sing for Your Supper? This Class Could Have…! (Mar 19, 2011)

No one would want to hear me “sing for my supper” but many at a delightful cooking class in Rockville, Maryland certainly could have done so! Starting with hosts, Dick and Mary – and their co-host, Lyn (who opened her home to us, along with husband Larry): last September, Dick, Mary and Lyn reveled in the Berkshire Choral Fest week of Umbrian hilltown touring (how great to guide this wonderful group!) and singing (voice study in the afternoons, with their conductor)…
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Umbria Re-Visited in Silver Spring, Maryland (Mar 18, 2011)

Jenny and Steve, Liz, Roseann and family, Karen, Katie and Sue, how good to renew the “Umbria connection” over the preparing of an Umbrian feast in Karen’s house! We certainly brought it all together, inspite of seeing the baking sheets of toasted bread for our bruschetta slide to the floor!
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You Can’t Make a Leek Frittata with a Fennel! (Mar 14, 2011)

Che bello! to cook once again with Mark in Massachusetts. It had been a few years since we first cooked together and he had a new group of friends to this class. Mark’s enthusiasm, though, was just as infectious: “Second time better than the first! Love it – forever a tradition – don’t stop!” he wrote to me after our feast…
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