I have many favorite restaurants. I'd be hard-pressed to choose if you asked me to pick just one, but more often than not, if I'm ea...

I want to sit quietly in a corner devouring this dessert as fast as I possibly can. The only reason to bring the fork out of my mouth is to ...

See those? Those are some VERY large zucchini. Kindly gifted to me by my friend Lesley, from her garden in Roseville. The picture doesn'...

I've been trying desperately to make summer stretch: an easy thing to do as we drove through Redding yesterday and glanced at the temper...

Well hello there. Have you given up on me? Assume I'm out of recipes and no longer cook? I can assure you, that's not the case. I ju...

1 am on Saturday morning and I awoke to a CRACK! At first I had no idea what it was, I waited...a minute later it came again, a crack follow...

Tonight's dinner consisted of the following: 1 large bowl air popped popcorn topped with a tiny bit of lemon juice and olive oil (people...

A wet gray afternoon calls for breaking out the fall recipes. Even though I have a slight hunch that this cloudy episode won't last too ...

I decided to try my hand at a recipe contest on http://www.thekitchn.com/ and I would love for you to vote! Click here to vote for my Salm...

Mentally, I feel as if my brain is going into some kind of state of hibernation. It's instinctual. It knows how challenging and full the...

I was beside myself when the third course at Beast found it's way onto my table and the plate in front of me. The smell was out of this ...

Sometimes vacations have a way of being less relaxing than you expect. You have to learn to expect the unexpected, as they say, but of cours...

What? You think I'd give you meatballs without a recipe for sauce? No way. I leave you with a guest post from Leah. And by the way? If y...

So I'm procrastinating. Just a tad. I should be packing my bag for Portland OR. It's halfway packed at least...ok, maybe 1/3 packed....

Laundry, no-stove cooking, a gin gimlet and the latest episode of Mad Men . Monday night has been heaven, dear readers. And when Don Draper ...

I'm sort of a savory breakfast kind of girl. Forget the waffles and pancakes, for the most part, I'm all about the eggs and bacon. N...

I really do have the best of intentions when it comes to this blog. I intend to post every week day, but unfortunately, sometimes life catch...

This is cocktail hour when you're stranded with your co-workers at the AMPM outside of Fairfield , waiting for the tow truck. One 20 oz...

Thanks, Monday. That was fun. Let's never do it again. Note the sarcasm. Turns out it's kind of risky to take my car outside of an 1...