Getting back from Boston was a little bit of an ordeal. There were a whole bunch of rain delays and canceled flights, but I ended up lucking into a replacement flight that went all the way from Boston to Oakland,…
A weekend in Boston
I’ll write more about the reason tomorrow, but I unexpectedly found myself in Boston over a long weekend. It was fabulous and exhausting and really really thrilling because the work I have ahead of me is going to be so…
Ham with Blackberry Chipotle glaze
Now that fall is upon us, I’m breaking into all those canned goods I put up throughout the summer and rejoicing in my hard work. After an adventure picking blackberries, and not finding very many great recipes for canning blackberries,…
Volcano cake
If you want to score some major points with relatively little effort, a volcano cake is the way to go. We just made a pile of cake, threw some brown fondant on top and let it fall where it wanted,…
2010 Year of Pleasures #43
I hated babysitting when I was a teen, but there was one family I would watch and it was because the mom was really into food preservation and always had home dried bananas in the house. Bananas dried in a…
Chicken Caesar Bowl
I think sharing this “recipe” will give you a good insight into where my life has been lately. It was a Thursday night, the week was seriously weighing on me, the grocery shopping and meal planning had been put off…
Roasted goodness
The last of the summer tomatoes are still showing up at farm stands, so I’ve been snapping them up. And then as is common for me, forgetting about them until they start to go wrinkly. But now I don’t grieve…
Paperclay ghosts
In my last house, this buffet was upstairs and only got a few little decorations. In this house it’s front and center so I needed to do better. Once I rearranged the decorations I had to fit the new place,…
Halloween Banner
This new place has this big cut out in the main downstairs wall, and I never know quite what to do with it. Most of the year I’ve just been leaving it empty because nothing I have seems to work…
2010 Year of Pleasures #42
Fall is here! And with it comes the fabulous flavor of pumpkin in all of my favorite treats. Pumpkin bread, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin spiced hot chocolate, and pumpkin flavored frozen yogurt. I don’t know if I love it so much…