Oh you blink and then the summer is gone! The manuscript is done (at least for now), and you’ve barely swum in the river but you did manage a few glasses of pink wine in the backyard here and there and one of your children just might have nearly inched taller than you. And then…
how to make a pie
So far this summer, I’ve made strawberry, strawberry rhubarb, blackberry, blackberry raspberry nectarine, and blueberry. I’m dragging my feet big time in the kitchen when it comes to recipe testing for this new book, but I swear I’d make a pie every single day if I had the berries to fill them. It is my…
the state of summer
Happy July. I’m guessing that you might want to be more off your computer than on these days, so I won’t keep you long. It’s summer around here, which means that everything changes and the house gets very messy. I’m down one kid at camp (the Unitarian anarchist sort), and I’ll have her back in…
pasta with all the greens
Last weekend, I got into a slight altercation with a woman at the farmers’ market over fridge space. She didn’t want to buy a 1/2-pound bag of salad because she said the fridge real estate was too precious. All I had were 1/2-pound bags, and my side of the altercation mostly consisted of a shrug and…
raspberry mint lassi
Last week on of those perfect hot/cool nights, we sat out on the porch and drank mojitos and ate green chile cheeseburgers. The dog hung out calm and mellow and not barking at the neighbors, and my sister brought her new blue portable record player out onto the porch and put it on a chair and played her…
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