Three occasions for cake and three friends. Anything is an occasion when you’ve shared a friendship for more than 24 years. A love letter to the two ladies I love best in between their birthdays.
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TALES & RECIPES FROM LIVES WELL LIVED
Three occasions for cake and three friends. Anything is an occasion when you’ve shared a friendship for more than 24 years. A love letter to the two ladies I love best in between their birthdays.
Read MoreOne of my favorite cakes adapted for my new home. It’s so simple that I’m sure you’ll make it as often as I have.
Read MoreI love making dinners from root vegetables in the autumn. There is just something so satisfying about them – in addition to the fact that they are very easy to prepare. Today on Market to Table, I’ll show you how to prepare a few root veggies and some ways to make them a meal in your home.
Read MoreI thought of a meal that Sadie might like and I think this would be it (besides ice cream, which I don’t have the capacity to make here). It has some of her favorite things – bread and eggs to eat and a pumpkin to boop and then stare at. It’ll make a lovely lunch for you this autumn. Hope you can cozy up to it and share with a four-legged friend.
Read MoreDogs are family members – plain and simple. They love you unconditionally and only ask for a bit of love in return. We could all learn a hell of a lot from them. I lost one of my dogs this week, but the joy in my remembrances of her and greater than my grief of her passing. We must keep the best parts of those we know – both animal and human – alive within our hearts. She will always be in mine.
Read MoreWhen is a cookie recipe not a cookie recipe? Well, when it’s a metaphor for the power of adaptability. In making my favorite chocolate chip cookies I explore how flexibility and the ability to adapt to change has improved my life, despite my initial fear of it.
Read MoreMy favorite cookie – the be all and end all of chocolate chip cookies. The NY Times Chocolate Chip Cookie is my cookie love for life and will never be replaced. Though I did not create it, I don’t think one should mess with perfection, unless adapting a recipe for a foreign kitchen, as I did here out of necessity (and for fun).
Read MoreThe first Market to Table recipe from my new apartment in Bra, Italy. A pasta dish that is quick, easy and uses only ingredients that were grown or produced locally, but can easily be reproduced elsewhere in the world. I hope you’ll enjoy this inaugural Italian Market to Table!
Read MorePizza al taglio is my favorite way to eat pizza – everything is baked up on a thin crust on a rectangular baking sheet in a very hot oven. You can top it in all of the ways you would a normal pizza – there is just more to enjoy. Here is one of my favorite combinations.
Read MoreAlthough this blog is not strictly vegetarian, I am and I owe so much to my move from omnivore to vegetarian. It completely changed how I viewed and interacted with food. And it all began ten years ago with a goat.
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