Category: Recipes

  • Slightly Sweet Scones

    Slightly Sweet Scones

    I have found my favorite scone recipe. I’ve made scones many times in the past, and they were always tasty… but about a month ago I discovered a new trick…

  • Call for Recommendations (London & NYC)

    Cam and I have lots of traveling coming up in the next month… first, it’s off to NYC for about four days where Cam will be running the New York…

  • World Bread Day: Vietnamese Mini Baguettes

    World Bread Day: Vietnamese Mini Baguettes

    My whole house smells of baking bread. It is wonderful. Perfect for the cool, wet fall day outside. With so much “to cook” on my “to do” list, I happily…

  • Step Away From the Figs

    Step Away From the Figs

    Someone seriously needs to stop me. I can’t help myself from buying the cute little baskets of figs. And each time I’ve done it over the summer, all with the…

  • My Favorite Pork & Beans

    And if you think I’m talking about Van Camps, think again.

  • Welcome to Fall: Chanterelle Risotto with Seared Scallops

    Welcome to Fall: Chanterelle Risotto with Seared Scallops

    I know I tend to wax poetic about eating local and farmer’s markets. But, you’ll have to bear with me yet again, because after a few weeks away from the…

  • Six Days, Three Stews, One Happy Belly

    Six Days, Three Stews, One Happy Belly

    Day One Plan an enormous British going away bash for friends moving to London for a year, ala Rory and Logan on last year’s Gilmore Girls. Day Two Shop for…

  • Chile Limeade

    Chile Limeade

    Also published on Well Fed Network’s The Spirit World Summer may be officially over in my part of the world, but someone forgot to tell the weather. After a week…

  • Ginger Scented Chai

    Ginger Scented Chai

    Also published on A Nice Cuppa When was your first chai? Was it a concentrate Tazo concoction at Starbucks? Or, slow-brewed and lightly sweetened at a fine Indian restaurant? I…

  • Crouching Pears, Hidden Plums (SHF #23)

    Crouching Pears, Hidden Plums (SHF #23)

    A secret lurks beneath this pear, tucked away in it’s belly, waiting for the first fork stroke. I just can’t resist the lure of combining pears and plums, two fruits…

  • Espesso versus Layered Espresso and Orange Panna Cotta

    Espesso versus Layered Espresso and Orange Panna Cotta

    Also published on WellFed Network’s A Nice Cuppa. Much ado has been made of the new Espesso, gelatin/foam-like espresso dish that you eat with a spoon, created by Ferran Adria…

  • Fruit on Fruit: Baked Pears and Spicy Plums

    Fruit on Fruit: Baked Pears and Spicy Plums

    I have a friend who has issues with meat on meat. She just thinks that combining any two kinds of meat into a dish is simply disgusting. I had never…