A Reminisce (+ Pearl Couscous with Tomatoes and Feta)
There was a lot of cake last weekend – did I mention the cake? – and a bit more this week, too, of the banana-chocolate-almond …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Sunday Dinners (+ A Spinach Soufflé)
[Limantour, March 2012.] March. Suddenly, we’re on the cusp of spring. This strange, dry, sunny winter has turned everything around and the mountains are hardly …
Looking for Inspiration (+ a Chard Gratin)
[San Francisco this morning, February 2012.] Today: the sky a sweet, deep blue, warm for February. I am eating an orange. Trying to write an …
Off East (+ Cabbage-Chard-White Bean Soup)
Tomorrow I go to Maine to visit Kurt and Emily, she of the biscotti pictured above and the delicious fresh-ginger ginger cookies sent for the …
Into the Woods
[Thanksgiving dinner, November 2011.] This year, Thanksgiving weekend involved a lot of time outdoors and that’s perhaps the thing I’m most grateful for in these …
Soon (But for Now, Carrot Soup)
[San Francisco, September 2011.] Currently, slowly consuming a piece of cake I baked for a coworker’s mumble mumble th birthday — chocolate cake filled with …