by Linda | May 17, 2021 | Chala
During most of the Covid-19 pandemic, Christian’s and my food explorations were back-burnered. We stopped our socially distanced cooking in his garage last Spring, but not before we put together two dozen packages of homemade granola for friends and family. With...
by Linda | Sep 16, 2020 | Chala, Cookbooks
Amory with Cooper My wife Amory looks forward to Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday Cooking with Chala meals. Interesting recipes, created in another family’s kitchen, translate into a diversity of flavors and no sink of encrusted pots to scrub. Clean-up’s her job at...
by Linda | May 16, 2020 | Chala
Five lonely dragon fruit, nestled together in a large cardboard box, caught my attention at the grocery store. My grandson and I are always on the lookout for what’s unfamiliar, untasted, and to us, exotic. However, the $5.98 price tag on a single, fist-sized piece of...
by Linda | Apr 20, 2020 | Chala
His friends call him Chala, a nickname from his high school and college days as a soccer player. I call him by his given name, Christian. The ending of Christian’s soccer seasons, my retirement as a spectator, and his hiatus from employment, prompted a question:...