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 …
Happiest of Happy
But that was not the same snow,” I say. “Our snow was not only shaken from white wash buckets down the sky, it came shawling …
The Feasting
[Before, November 2010.] Home again, home again after a four-day weekend that whizzed by much too quickly. I know there was lots of cooking, lots …