Haylie Duff Book Signing 10/26

Real Girl's Kitchen SIGNED copies now available at www.vintageweave.com

Haylie Duff has a fabulous cookbook out and Vintageweave is honored to have played a role with supplying all the props seen in this delectable book filled with all sorts of healthy recipes! My girl, Haylie, has knocked it out of the park with completely accessible recipes derived from those gathered  from her grandmother and mother...and then added her modern twist.

Also be sure to see Vintageweave's styling on her soon-to-launch cooking show! Details soon.  I am both prop producer and eater on a few episodes, the latter at which I excel. This series has been an absolute BLAST to film with the highly-skilled, Emmy-winning team at Citizen Pictures!

BOOK SIGNING!

REAL GIRL'S KITCHEN

                    by Haylie Duff

Saturday, October 26, 2013

2pm

Meet Haylie and her sister, Hilary, as we launch her book!  Eat a cupcake and enjoy lemonade, champagne or our signature cocktail for the day: Haylie's Comet.  We begin sipping and signing at 2pm until approx 4pm PST or until books run out!

Vintageweave Interiors

7928 West 3rd Street

Los Angeles, CA 90048

(5 business west of Fairfax; kiddy corner from CBS Studios and The Grove)

RSVP: vintageweave@aol.com

323.932.0451

My pal, Haylie, and me outside of Vintageweave gathering fun treasures for the cookbook

Can't make it to the signing?  Not to fret: Vintageweave has SIGNED copies for sale and WE SHIP WORLDWIDE!!!!

$25

vintageweave.com

One can not cook with an ugly pot!

{French Potato Masher; $75 at vintageweave.com}

During one of my magical trips to St Tropez, I participated in a bistro cooking class. I'll never forget overhearing an instructor comment to a colleague "I can not cook with an ugly pot!" as she grabbed a copper tureen. I loved this! This past March I added to my own copper pot collection, a cocette ronde a couv (round concotte with lid) with a visit to my favorite Paris haunt, a chef's paradise:

"E Dehillerin"

Tucked away in the south of France is a cozy, blue kitchen with a simple
wooden table in the center and a door leading quietly out to a back garden. The
walls are covered in hanging antique objects--egg beaters, ladles, a messaluna,
pewter pans (all in perpetual use)--and shelves are crammed with vintage china
and colorful pottery bowls (the ones wiht the cracks and chips have the most
character). It is one of the most welcoming kitchens I have ever seen
--and some of the most welcoming food you can imagine comes out of it."

The above and below quotes are favorite excepts from "The Country Cooking of France" ~ Anne Willan

"I can do everything by hand--with a mortar and pestle, a knife, a
whisk--it's so much more sensual"

Call us or order online this incredible book--a delight for the tummy and the eyes! Chock full of gorgeous pictures and interesting tidbits surrounding the country cooking style of the south of France.

THE COUNTRY COOKING OF FRANCE
11.5 x 8.5 hardcover; $49
now available at "Vintageweave.com"

A Love of Cooking-Pioneer Style

{Photo courtesy of Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman}

As much as I love reading blogs or websites, I have very little time to indulge and rarely can sit and surf. I have come across so many beautiful websites, mainly after a lovely woman or man has commented on my blog, or sent me a private email. These sites almost always get bookmarked for a visit later.....sadly, I never get the time to do so.

But every now and then a friend will send a link that I'll go gaga over. These usually include low-calorie (NOT), sugar free (SO NOT) cooking sites. I love to cook. I love to shop AND cook so I'm dangerous in a Williams Sonoma or Sur La Table. DANGER-OUS! {Because everyone NEEDS a coffee cup size whisk or radish peeler or panini press or 3 types of waffle makers...}

So now.......Periodically, I plan to share my fave sites here, in hopes that YOU will find one you love also, and visit it again and again, thereby making up for my lack thereof.

I share this one with you and and hope you'll enjoy the recipes and photos as much as I do (be sure to check out the photography section if you are more of the type who feels the oven is merely for storing stuff)....

The Pioneer Woman

P.S. Don't you LOVE the blue transferware used in the above photo??