Lazy Days Summer Baking: Strawberry-Rhubarb Galette

Summer, the season of abundant fresh fruit, is the perfect time for pie baking.
Unless, of course, you are a lazy baker.
Or, like me, you have a small baby who seems to feel the need to be attached to you continually. Or, you have a job, and a bunch of kids to take to […]

Asparagus with Panch Phoron

Asparagus is one of those seasonal vegetables that we make gluttons of ourselves with when it is in season, until the point that we are nearly tired of it when it is gone.
I say nearly tired, because I don’t think that I could get truly weary of asparagus. It is just so fresh and […]

Making Stock: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Warning!
This post contains photographs of a graphic nature. If you are too squeamish to want to look at where your food comes from, if you cannot abide meat that looks like it came from an animal, then stop reading, move along and don’t look any further, because some of these photographs depict in graphic […]

Valentine’s Day for Cynics

I really should have posted this last night, but I thought I would show my sweet side on Valentine’s Day.

Now that we have gotten that out of the way, I can give you a taste of the real me: the cynic.
I don’t really like Valentine’s Day, and I never did.
Not only is it […]

Sugar High Friday #13: The Dark Side

It is my birthday.
I am forty years old today.
And what better way to celebrate than to enter a blogging event: my very first Sugar High Friday?
This one is hosted by Kelli at Lovescool, where she asks us to turn to the dark side–of chocolate, I mean. She asks that we do something new and different […]