What a week I had! Â Thank you to Seattle and Portland for showing me a great time. Â I loved visiting both cities, doing TV segments, meeting people at Book Larder and Bob’s Red Mill. Â I will definitely be back! Â In the meantime, I will be keeping it pretty mellow this week to get back on track before I get busy again next weekend.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend and restful July 4th! Â Here’s your dinner planner for the week:
I keep doing this thing where I look at the calendar and something major is tomorrow or coming up really soon. Oh no, Father’s Day is tomorrow and I haven’t sent cards or gifts! I am in Seattle right now and then en route to Portland, and I just realized July 4th is on Tuesday. Not only do I not know where we’re going or how we’re celebrating, I haven’t photographed a single striped pie or red, white, and blue fruit plate!! Well friends, this salad will have to do. There’s not a smidge of red, white or blue in it, but I can guarantee this recipe from my new cookbook, “Kitchen Matters,” will be the STAR of your 4th of July BBQ.
It’s nice to be home this weekend before I take off again. I’m catching up on emails, snail mail and shooting some recipes for the blog. Â I do have some fun upcoming events and such that I can tell you about:
Monday, June 26th Set your DVR’s for my Hallmark Home & Family appearance! Â That show is tons of fun. Â I am making the wild halibut burgers from my cookbook. Â Please check your local listings for times. Â On the west coast, the show airs at 10:00 am.
Tuesday, June 27th I am chatting live with the always fabulous Kathy Kaehler and Catherine Grace O’Connell on LA Talk Radio CH 1, Â 11:00 am PST/2:00 pm EST
Wednesday, June 28th  Hi, Seattle!!  Come meet me at Book Larder at 6:30 pm for mingling, chatting and snacks!  Free, but please RSVP to Book Larder. I am also taping a tv segment at KOMO which will run on Thursday morning.
Thursday, June 29th  Hi, Portland! I am excited to appear on KATU “Afternoon Live” at 4:00 pm.
Friday, June 30th I am doing a segment with KATU “AM Northwest” at 9:00 am. Â And then I am teaching a cooking class at Bob’s Red Mill from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Â $25 Please RSVP to Bob’s Red Mill. Â So excited!
But we’ve still got to eat! Â Here’s your dinner planner for the week:
It has been quite a week! I had a quick trip to New York where I was able to meet some editors, taped a bunch of videos for NBCNewsBetter, and did a cooking segment out on the Plaza for The Today Show. Yesterday, I returned to my favorite local LA show, KTLA morning news to cook from the book, did a fun Facebook Live with my friend Catherine McCord from Weelicious, and spent the evening at Pages Bookstore in Manhattan Beach for a fabulous party celebrating my new book. Pages, by the way, is the only source for signed copies of my book!  Right now I am taping a cooking segment at Hallmark’s Home & Family which will air on Monday. So exciting!
I’m back in New York and I am super excited because I’m doing a cooking segment on The TODAY Show on Wednesday.  It will be in the 8:00 am hour (usually after 8:30), so set your DVR’s!  I’ll be doing a demo of two recipes from my new cookbook.
Happy Father’s Day!! Â I hope you are all doing something wonderful to celebrate all the great dads out there!
It is officially summer in my house since Mr. Picky finished school this week. Â Yippee!! Â No more making lunches at either 9 o’clock at night or 6 o’clock in the morning!! Perfect timing as I have quite a few activities this week to keep me busy.
Wednesday, June 21st tune into The TODAY Show in the 8:00 hour for a cooking segment I am doing from my new cookbook! (The cooking segments are usually after 8:30 am.)
Thursday June 22nd 10:20-ish am I’ll be on KTLA in Los Angeles for more cooking from the book
12:45 pm PST I am cooking on Facebook Live with Catherine McCord from Weelicious!
7:00 pm Book party at Pages Bookstore, Manhattan Beach. Â It’s a free event, but please RSVP. Â Also, if you can’t get to Pages, but you’d still like a signed book, you can order from them and they’ll ship it to you!
Here’s your dinner planner for the week:
The book process is a long one and similar to online dating. You parade yourself around vulnerably, putting your best assets forward, hoping the right companion will ask you for a date. You might have to kiss a few frogs before you find Mr. Right and then you’re an item. DaCapo Lifelong Books and I dated a bit before we got together in August of 2015 and the rest is history!
It is with much anticipation, excitement, and pride that I can finally announce that my new book, Kitchen Matters, has arrived!!! Â In my last post, I compared writing a book to having a baby. Â But in reality, this book was brewing for longer than a baby and this book was not for me, but for all of you! Â I absolutely love teaching cooking classes and I wish I could see all of you in the kitchen. Â Since that is not entirely possible, I wrote this book instead!
