Weekend Cooking
[Forget-me-nots, April 2011.] So it’s spring now, even if it doesn’t always feel like it every day due to rain in the forecast and the …
On Feeling Lucky, and a Simple Potato Soup
[In Golden Gate Park, March 2011.] This past weekend I was in Phoenix where it was hot during the day but cool and dry at …
Home, with Penne and Pesto
[Sonoma Coast, January 2011.] I took today off. No working from home, no working at work, no working, really, at all. I pushed off thoughts …
Wintering
[Monterey, January 2011.] (Very) Occasionally I wish I still lived on the East Coast, mostly because of the snow. There were some — if fairly …
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 …
Vegetarian Thanksgiving: Main Dishes
[Dinner, quickly, November 2010.] I had planned to do a post today about vegetarian main dishes appropriate for the holiday table, but all that has …
Vegetarian Thanksgiving: Vegetables, Etc.
[Kurt’s hands, December 2008.] This is what I have done today: Lugged cake and cookies in to work on the bus, most likely annoying fellow …
Vegetarian Thanksgiving: Starting Off
Anyway, though, regardless of decadent chocolate cake and the strange weather in Northern California this weekend (in the 70s, dry and sunny, the poor trees …
So Then
[Fuel, September 2010.] Here is Indian Summer: sweet blue light at the beach on Saturday afternoon, happy dogs and the smell of bonfires, digging toes …
Strange Summer
[A tiny bit of sun and summer in Sonoma County, July 2010.] It’s pretty boring to complain about the weather, I know, especially since it …