It's been very quiet in here lately. No one is at home. Well, not at home by a decent hour that is. The truth is, I'm hardly cooking...

When opening up my fridge tonight I was faced with a conundrum. In actuality I was faced with a head of cauliflower, but that posed a diffic...

With Halloween coming up this weekend, I'm feeling the pressure of putting a costume together. Something I haven't done in several y...

Someone needs to learn their lines. That someone would be me. I have the general shape of things...but a word, a phrase here and there...I t...

I lost a bet and ended up at Benihana's at 6pm on a Saturday. In case you're wondering, Benihana's is basically a Chuck e Cheese...

I was lying in bed working on my laptop when I heard the refrigerator door open. It closed a few seconds later, and the cabinet door opened....

As long as I can remember I have had (what I admit to be) a completely unreasonable fear of yeast. I have avoided recipes that called for ye...

Being a Capricorn, I have extreme anxiety over being late to any kind of occasion . I am the type to always show up at least 5 minutes early...

I am about to launch a bomb on my friends and co-workers. I have hereby commenced the great chocolate chip cookie bake-off of 2009. Listen, ...

Braised Kale My love for (and addiction to) kale cannot be overstated. I yelped in joy upon opening October's issue of Bon Appetit and o...

Hurricane force winds in San Francisco! But it's cozy inside with candles lit, my boy lying on the bed and chocolate chip cookies baking...

Saturday was a good day. A very good day. The morning found Daniel and I gallivanting across the bridge on our way to who knows where? ...

A large sign in the farmer's market today proclaimed this week's tomatoes the last of the season. There go the Early Girl's, the...

Sitting on the couch with our Stage Manager during rehearsal the other night, she bemoaned her lack of time for baking. Seeing as how I have...

Tonight is basically a tale of kitchen disaster. Not the quiet night of a long bike ride, soup and some armchair reading I wanted it to be. ...

This Saturday was the birthday party to end all birthday parties. Lily turned 30, so we celebrated in style, with back-yard karaoke and a ho...

Tonight as I walked home I smelled it in the air. Fall. The very first scent of it. It went very well with a large harvest moon and a pumpki...

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...