About that Wedding Cake …
[Cake for Leah and Simon, gorgeous photo by Sweet Monday Photography.] A year ago I was obsessing about butter cream — how much, would it …
Friday Snapshot(s)
(or, small notes to myself) The sun has just slipped out again and the hills are glowing green, green, in a way that sings — …
Thyme-Scrambled Eggs
[Flowers, bay, October 2010.] Last weekend I was invited for drinks at a house perched near the top of the Inverness ridge, somehow tucked into …
Toujours Amour & Caramel Pots de Creme
[Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite, February 2011.] And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To …
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies + Hitting the Road
[On my table right this minute, February 2011.] Today I am working from home and baking cookies and making soup (roasted potato-leek, with spinach and …
(Will Run for) Banana-Chocolate Muffins
The other night I did something I hadn’t in far too long: I baked banana bread — err, muffins — from a standby recipe. I’ve …
On New Year’s Eve …
[New Year’s Eve 2010, San Francisco.] At the beginning of the new year — for all of January, really — I find I am more …