September 7, 2007 – 7:09 am
I’m headed to San Francisco tonight to fete my friend’s 40th (for the second year in a row) and Christopher and Noe are going to meet me there tomorrow morning for a picnic with some of our city friends. I woke up bummed that I wouldn’t see them tonight, what with this being the big “day […]
August 31, 2007 – 6:38 am
I was thinking about Labor Day. It’s a funny title for a time that’s meant to be a break from labor. I mean, shouldn’t it be called Rest Day? Or Chill Out Day?*. I think so.
So it’s in a very non-laborious spirit that I offer this, one of my highest reward-to-effort ratio recipes (i.e. lots […]
August 24, 2007 – 5:39 am
Forget it. I was planning to expound on prolonging the pleasures of the tomato in this post, but I’ve found so many other fantastic recipes for Slow Roasted Tomatoes that I decided it would be better for everyone if I just did a roundup. So here goes:
It’s Tomato Season! (Prevention: September 2007). This is my recipe […]
August 19, 2007 – 6:07 am
I know, I know. I promised tomatoes as my next post. But darn it, my brother came to visit from New York this weekend, we got caught up in the revelry of Healdsburg’s 150th anniversary and I caught a cold. As a result, I never made it to the farmers market, (I still owe the fish […]
I know it’s the middle of summer, but I just picked the first full batch of green beans off our towers in back (check them out . . . I think Christopher’s just going to have to be in charge of the ‘high harvest’ work) and couldn’t resist bringing up this article on Red with […]
Summer always seems to imply a certain amount of leisureliness. Multi-course dinners that linger as twilight shimmers its way into dusk. Weekend picnics that morph (over a bottle of wine or two) from lunch right into supper.
But it doesn’t always turn out that way.
Sometimes work keeps you until well after the sun sets. Sometimes […]
I just planted some lettuce seeds a few weeks ago and now it’s that time again—the dreaded moment of thinning. I’ve never been the neat and tidy type. I don’t fold my socks, my shirts face both ways on hangers and apples end up in the crisper on a regular basis. So it’ll come as […]
This may seem like a strange subject to broach in the midst of my first week being a mom, but as I watch my little daughter squirm with delight as she reaches for her puree of purple potatoes and purple carrots (served from a purple spoon, no less) we bought together at the Farmer’s Market […]
Here’s why I’m not Martha Stewart. This weekend, I trimmed back a bunch of overgrown herbs and had them in a big bowl of water waiting to be cleaned—basil, thyme, marjoram, mint. You name it, it was in there. So I thought, “won’t this make a lovely herb pesto?”
I envisioned myself plucking off the […]
If you haven’t yet tried one of the dry roses that are (finally!) hitting the shelves in America, stop whatever you’re doing (alright, you can finish reading this post first ;-)) and get thee to a wine store!
Roses are made from red grape varietals, so they possess the body and flavor profile of those grapes—like syrah, […]
