I realized something today - there are items in my garden that I don’t know how to check for ripeness. Tomatoes are easy, they turn a nice shade of red (or yellow) and they’re ready. But what about lettuce? Or carrots? Or garlic and shallots?
The strawberries are pretty easy […]

Oh hey - a recipe of sorts.
Consider this a super simple beat the heat kind of beverage. I peeped in the fridge the other night and noticed I had most of a bottle of sweet and sour mixer. So, I rummaged around and found an unopened bottle of club soda. […]

More fiddling with pictures. On this one I didn’t use the flash and let pshop auto correct the levels. The color is a wee bit off - vanilla ice cream isn’t quite that yellowy and the rim on the plate is green. Note on that - those pyrex plates are ones that […]

I don’t have the patience for lovely staging of food photos for my blog. I tend to just snap a quick shop before digging in. The flash always winds up washing everything out until it all looks white. Believe me, though, when I tell you that this cake tastes amazing and actually […]