The Tuesday Treat: Milk Chocolate Pudding
For an explanation of The Tuesday Treat, see here. Milk Chocolate Pudding, from Gourmet February 2007, with one small adaption Milk chocolate. Pudding. I love …
The Tuesday Treat: Almond-Raspberry Cake
For an explanation of The Tuesday Treat, see here. Raspberry-Almond Cake, adapted from Roost There’s a lot of flourless recipe-testing coming up in my immediate …
Nearly Summer (+ Chocolate Sorbet)
[Chocolate sorbet fresh from the deep freeze — note ice flecks – June 2012.] Woke up today to more sun and brilliant blue skies, feeling …
Cherries! (+ Cherry Jam)
Today: bowls and bowls of buttercream. Baking flourless peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and vegan ginger snaps. Filling and frosting three tiers of a wedding …
Quinoa Salad with Feta and Mint
How do I love quinoa? Let me count the ways: it’s a whole grain that’s actually a seed (I wrote an article for NPR in …
A New (Favorite) Thing: Rhubarb
[In the kitchen, Sebastopol, May 2012.] The fall after I graduated college I went to hear a lecture by Isabel Allende, who was speaking to …
Nettle Pesto? Nettle Pesto!
“Bring home some nettles,” I told my husband a few weeks ago as we parted ways on a sunny San Francisco Saturday. I was headed …
(Not-too-Sweet) Strawberry Jam
The good news is that after my expression of teen angst last Friday San Francisco turned on a dime, helping us to forget a soggy …
In Spring, Vegetables (+ Cabbage-Kale Salad)
[Climbing the Filbert Steps, San Francisco, March 2012.] March, which seemed to trod along quite slowly (no complaints here) is suddenly over and here it …
Six Years (+ Vegetarian Red Beans and Rice)
[Sunday, San Francisco, March 2012.] Today: a glowering, gloomy sky with rain in the forecast. Last week was the rainiest it’s been here in months …