Posted in breakfast & brunch, fruit desserts, recipes, summer, wordless wednesday on Jul 20th, 2010
I recently tossed this together as a brunch side to lox and bagels. Minted fruit is hardly a novel idea, but standing in the drowsy Sunday kitchen, still in pajamas and part cutting, part eating drippy fruit, I thought eh, it’s summer. The season begs for no thought and less effort, falling back on old [...]
Posted in Cleo, wordless wednesday on Apr 20th, 2010
Fundraiser Forsythia Faux Farm Focus ———– Fundraiser: Hazelnut Mocha Cherry Torte, made this week for a fundraising auction. Not pictured: extra mocha buttercream, made for sitting around my kitchen. Forsythia: Now popping everywhere in shades of lemon meringue, forsythia rings in the season by dangling over porches and sidewalks, showing its aggressive, smiling best in [...]
Posted in Holiday, bars and brownies, chocolate, wordless wednesday on Feb 17th, 2010
Over 20 Valentine’s together, but they’re not important days. Everything that’s anything happens in between. Make Mocha Brownies, and stamp shapes with any size heart-shaped cutter. You’ll have lovely brownies and also a grand snacking plate of in-between. This, as Josie will tell you, is easily the best part. // //
Posted in family, wordless wednesday on Jan 20th, 2010
Hard to say what’s best here: those groovy pants, or my sister’s ratty, drooled-on, one-eyed Big Bird? Apologies for my absence. Simmering away and back soon, with more than a few words. // //
Posted in Holiday, Josie, wordless wednesday on Nov 4th, 2009
A few words anyway: while prepping Miss Undead, Josie said “I want the makeup to look, you know, like she had a lot on and then it smeared for 100 years.” I told her the quickest route would be to turn 42, stay up very late, then check the mirror at 7 a.m. And your [...]
