{make this} Blueberry Mojitos from Eat, Live, Run
I don’t like blueberries so I can’t explain how I came home from the store with a huge container of them, but I definitely wasn’t going to eat them raw so I figured my...
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{recipe} Spiced Maple Peach Ice Cream
I’ve mentioned previously how much it pains me to waste fruit, even when it’s well past the point of eating. With the last of the very overripe and mushy peaches I put together a...
{recipe} Summer Chicken Tacos with Plums, Avocados, and Sweet Corn
My Dad grows a lot of fruits and vegetables in his Sonoma County garden, and has a lovely fruit orchard. Around this time of year the branches are so laden with fruit that they...
{recipe} Double Vanilla Peach-Berry Galette
Recently a friend asked me for a fruit galette recipe. Did I have one? Well, no. I usually wing it on galettes because to me that is the nature of the thing, casual and...
{travelogue} Seven Things You Should Eat in Amsterdam
Ah, Amsterdam. Perhaps you’ve come because the canals are picturesque, the folks whizzing by on bicycles are exhilirating, the museums are wondrous, and the design stores delightful… or maybe you just like drugs? Or...
{recipe} Millionaire’s Chocolate Truffle Torte
This is an old family favorite recipe, and with good reason. It’s not very hard to make, it doesn’t have too many ingredients, and it tastes like a million bucks. Hence the fancy name!...
{recipe} Easy Oven-Roasted Carrots
When I was growing up, my mom would often make carrots in the oven cooked with butter and dill. I loved them back then, but after experimenting over the years with different herbs, spices,...
{recipe} Buttery Cheddar and Scallion Scones
This blog has been on a serious sweet streak lately – and when I look back, I see I haven’t posted anything savory here since January! Let me get back in the good graces...
{recipe} Kentucky Jam Cake with Brown Sugar Icing
I recently finished watching all three seasons of Justified–a somewhat silly TV show on the FX network set in Kentucky that’s about a US marshal and a whole bunch of lowlife hillbilly types who...
{recipe} Salted Chocolate Matzah Toffee
I haven’t blogged in awhile because I’ve been working on another project – having a baby! Yesterday he was three weeks old and things are normalizing pretty quickly, so I was able to find...
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