I never imagined when I started this blog nearly five years ago that someday my dishes would appear in a cookbook, but if there’s anything I’ve learned this year, it’s that life thr...
Julian Spencer Dietsch was born September 21, 2011 at 7:29 a.m., weighed in at 8 lbs. and measured 20 inches long. We’re at home now, still tired and recovering (and boy are the cats confused),...
I was five years old when my father died. It was pancreatic cancer what done the old man in. With a baby on the way, I’ve been thinking a lot about him, about the man he was, the father he was....
You’d never know it from this blog, but at 9 (!!) months pregnant, I’m still cooking dinner just about every night. Photos, too, are still being taken on a fairly regular basis, though th...
Whether you’re celebrating Canada Day or July 4th, or just enjoying a lazy summer weekend, I hope it’s a good one. Enjoy.
It’s funny what you find when going through boxes in the time around a move. If you’re a bit of a pack rat, like we are, there will be loads of paper – receipts, ticket stubs, take ...
There’s nothing like a three-day weekend. Hope your weekend, whatever length, was wonderful. (As always, you can click the photos to view them with more detail in my Flickr stream.)
This is what has been keeping us so busy (and quiet) for the last several weeks. We’re all in, as is all of our stuff (holy cow, we have a lot of stuff), and we’ve been slowly unpacking, ...
Lately there are days when I barely recognize myself. I mean, if you had said to me a year ago that there would come a day when I’d spend a rainy Monday afternoon in the kitchen happily playing...
The month of May has not been great for planned dinners in our little household. Between work commitments, appointments, preparing for our move across town, and a blink-and-you’ll-miss-us trip ...
This week, the folks at food52 have challenged members of the community to submit one “Recipe You Want To Be Remembered For.” This contest theme got me thinking, of course, being 20 weeks...
Mike and I enjoyed an awesome date night last night (before a very big day today), taking part in a Sunday Supper put together by some very cool folks in town. You can check them out on Facebook, her...
You guys. Seriously… you’re the best. Thank you for your kind words, your good thoughts, your patience, your encouragement. It means so much. Thank you.
I’ve had a post, or several, swirling around in my head for weeks now, but finding the space and time and heart to write here has been a challenge. Recent world events have left me shaken and d...
So this year’s big, newsy post was going to be all about how we had decided to move to a new city, to pursue new opportunities and go through the process of building a home and a community in a brand...
I don’t know what to say. It’s well into February and I haven’t posted here in what feels like forever. We’ve been cooking up a storm, working on projects in the kitchen, eati...
I don’t know about you, but I’ve had it. We’re not yet done with January and we’ve had more than our yearly average snowfall. My commute has been awful – if the trains a...
I had no idea, as we planned our meals for this week, that last night’s dinner would turn into such a big fun celebration. We’ve spent most of our time planning for and looking forward to...
Mike and I have had a copy of Charcuterie in our collection of food and cookery books for almost as long as we’ve been together. This sort of “project cooking” hasn’t traditio...
We’re up to our elbows in snow, and a good four days into our 10-day adaptation of the Food Lovers’ Cleanse. The biggest problem I’ve had (as I suspected would be the case) is that ...
Yesterday morning, Mike and I began the first day of a modified version of the Food Lovers’ Cleanse featured in the current issue of Bon Appetit magazine. Now, we’re not typically proponents of fasts...
It’s so full of promise, isn’t it? A chance to start fresh, a whole year stretched out before you, filled with possibilities and hope. I used to make grand lists of all the things I’...
(As always, you can click the photos to view them with more detail in my Flickr stream.)
I’ve been working on my perfect chicken cutlet recipe for what seems like ages, inspired by our many Bay Area friends-who-feel-like-family and their delicious tales of Bakesale Betty sandwiches...
(As always, click the photos to view them with more detail in my Flickr stream.)
December already. I can’t believe we’re closing out another year, though for many reasons, I’ll be happy to put this one behind us. I’ve been struggling with the weather alrea...
Dinner last night was two days in the making, Craig Claiborne’s “Boeuf Bourguignon I” from Amanda Hesser’s The Essential New York Times Cook Book. Mike did the honors, lovingl...
So here’s what we did with our Thanksgiving leftovers – what about you? (As always, click the photos to view them with more detail in my Flickr stream.)
Thank you for sharing our food and drink, our laughter and tears, our sorrows and joys this year. We are so grateful for you all.
There are times when I really have to pinch myself and ask, “Is this really my life? How the heck did I get here, to this place, with these people… how the heck did I get so lucky?”...
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