Pictures courtesy of the multi-talented and extremely fashionable, Brian. Menu: Rose Sangria with Red and Gold Raspberries Fresh Green Bean ...

As you may have guessd by all the cakes pictured on this blog and subsequently gifted to me, I turned a year older a few weeks ago. Aside fr...

Ummm...so, guys? There's this Pie Truck . It's based out of Alameda. You order a pie off the website, and dude delivers them to you....

As promised! Peach pie number 2! Am I tired of peach pie? Nope. If you have another recipe you'd like to share, send it on and I promise...

Very wise people (Oprah) have said the following: If you write it down and believe in it, it will eventually come true. I have decided to te...

This Sunday I did the unthinkable. I took on the unfathomable, the completely ridiculous and totally overboard task of making two peach pies...

It's true. You can never have too much potato salad. Well, maybe that's not true for one sitting, and perhaps more to the point, wha...

While it isn’t confirmed, I always suspected that my grandmother Louise might have had a love affair with Jacques Pepin. I am not sure if sh...

You can search high and low for the perfect salsa recipe for years and not find the one that's exactly to your taste. Salsa is the Meryl...

I'll take any chance I can get to grill in the great outdoors. Sadly, I have no outdoor grill (or outdoor space for that matter) at my a...

I must admit, I am something of a tomato snob. In the summer, they become the main focus of almost every dish I cook. But during the other m...

I snuck away to Mendocino County this weekend to a campground in the Anderson Valley, which is overflowing with wineries along Highway 128. ...

Summer has a way of being terribly distracting. It's so difficult to go about the day to day business of work, errands and chores when o...

I've notice a trend amongst food-bloggers. It seems at some point in their youth, everyone went to France and since then, food has taken...

I had all four burners going on Saturday night in Tahoe, preparing the Birthday feast in our rustic cabin. Just an hour before starting dinn...

Lately, more and more, I feel a kind of panic to remember everything. I'm crushed when others forget; where we were, what we said and di...

The most difficult part of vacation is ending it. Tearing yourself away from the shores of Lake Tahoe in exchange for mountains of laundry i...

No recipe today, as I'm off to Tahoe for the weekend. The time by the lake promises to be full of fun and delicious new recipes. I was a...

It started with a rented taco truck, now it's one of the most coveted Thursday night dinning tickets. Last week I had the pleasure of at...

Do you know what it is to have a friend who can cook like nobody's business? I am lucky enough to be able to say that I do. So it is, th...