From the monthly archives: September 2011
Ahhhhh, comfort food. Here we go with another gem. My dear friends in Berkeley make this all the time. I was introduced to the dish when we were invited to their summer wonderland at Lake Tahoe. After a long day on the beach, the sun goes down and a breeze hits the air. You keep [...]
Continue Reading →If you’ve ever had a baby and someone has brought you dinner, you never forget what they bring. Well let me rephrase that–If someone brings you dinner after you have a baby, chances are you’ll remember their meal. I remember some postpartum meals being the very best thing I ever placed in my mouth. This [...]
Continue Reading →Got a bunch of tomatoes hanging around this time of the year? I’ve got just the thing for you.
Sometimes I get stuck in a rut, and I make the same thing over and over again. This factors in most prominently on Sunday evenings. As we gear up for a new week, we all like [...]
Continue Reading →This recipe is a keeper. I’ve been making it for so long that I can’t even remember where I got it. But, it is a comfortable, healthy, Fall kind of meal. And while cooking with ground beef is not one of my favorite things, I’ll gladly buy a package for this meal. Now that I [...]
Continue Reading →I have to be honest with you about this recipe. And don’t be mad. After talking to several friends about our doings this summer, we all agreed on one thing: We gained weight. Ouch. But, I’m here to tell you why I’m a bit chunkier now than I was in June. It’s because of the [...]
Continue Reading →When we lived in Berkeley, we had a Sunday night tradition. When the weather was just right (90% of the year), we (all of our fellow graduate school neighbors) gathered outside of our apartments and had a beautiful supper during sunset. The salad below was brought by my dearest friend. She just threw it together. [...]
Continue Reading →I have a girlfriend that reminds me of Cinderella. Whenever she’s at my house, everything is suddenly bright and beautiful. The birds and mouse from the neighborhood even come to say hi. I swear she can talk to them. She brought the following yumminess to my house. Now, it is a Fall staple. The kiddies [...]
Continue Reading →In our house, we’ve given up hard drives. We store everything in the cloud. More specifically, google docs (or documents if you insist on being proper). I’ll be using google docs to organize and store more and more of my recipes. If you are a lucky friend of mine, I’ve already shared a [...]
Continue Reading →Do you use rubber gloves? I ask because this summer I had a house full of mommies who were disgusted by my lack of rubber gloves. One mommy couldn’t breathe until she got back from Target with a darling pair of dish cleaning gloves, just for me. I don’t know why I don’t use them, [...]
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