A Simple {Gluten-Free} Chocolate Cake
You should always have a one-bowl cake or two in your recipe arsenal and this one, for a simple chocolate cake with or without frosting, …
Honey-Sweetened Lemon Curd
A hazy sky today. The wish for San Francisco’s Indian Summer sun — or fog, whichever — is particularly strong. Fall in the city by …
Peanut Butter-Chocolate ‘Nice Cream’
October, and the main difference we notice here is that it’s cooler in the mornings, or at least not as hot. I sneak in my …
Spelt-Honey Cake: For Now (or Later)
One aspect of international living is the last minute cramming into your suitcase all and sundry items you wish to take back home with you …
A {gluten-free} Lemon Cake
[Kehoe Beach, August 2015.] Yesterday we were on a beach in the blazing sun watching the Pacific roar and hurtle itself onto the sand; today …
Summer Staple (+ Gluten-Free Double Crisp Apple Crisp)
I’ve decided that each summer going forward should be marked by a particular staple, be it swimming early in the day, twice-weekly hikes, a certain …
Slow Days (+ a Cherry Galette)
We are having a summer. Foggy mornings, warm afternoons, swim ‘lessons’ at the pool where I learned to swim so many years ago, (very) early …
Coming Around to It (+ A Better Carrot Cake)
I don’t typically like carrot cake. It’s too sweet for my taste and traditional recipes call for an amount of oil and sugar that make …
Getting Back to It (+ Strawberry-Rhubarb Honey Pie)
{Tomales Bay from the trail, July 2015.} Strawberries There were never strawberries like the ones we had that sultry afternoon sitting on the step of …
{gluten-free} Oatie Squares
Days go by, a month! since I’ve last visited here and we are now in California for the summer months blessed with cool, foggy mornings, …