Pickled Sweet Cherries
A surplus of cherries is a problem I’m not used to having. But alas, I was faced with a few pounds of cherries, more than...
Rainier Cherry and Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
We’ve just returned from a week-long trip to Colorado. The magical land where the fruit stands line the mountain roads like mile markers; ramshackle shacks...
Bourbon Cream Root Beer Floats
I discovered something magical this fall: bourbon cream liqueur. Think of it like Irish cream, but bourbon flavored. Yes, it’s as incredible as it sounds....
Mexican Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles
I had my first book signing this past weekend, at Parnassus Books here in Nashville. I was very excited, to say the least. I thought...
My Favorite Juice Glasses
In the grand scheme of food blogging and food photography, glasses often get left out. I admit that my drinks category is quite sparse (something...
Roasted Broccoli and Asparagus Salad: In Real Life
Sometimes, life happens. It happens every day in fact. And the styled and edited scenes that appear on this blog don’t often reflect that. So...
Cookie Dough D-Day is Here!
I officially declare today, June 5th, National Cookie Dough Day. I don’t know if there is an official process for declaring such things, but I...
Roasted Root Vegetable Salad with Goat Cheese
CSA season has started again. You know what that means. Salads. Lots and lots of salads. It’s quite a welcome change, actually, considering the less-than-healthy...
White Chocolate Strawberry Blondies
Oh fair berries of straw… how I love thee, with thine ruby skins and flesh so sweet. If only thou didn’t upseteth my stomach so....
Homemade Pixie Sticks
Pixie sticks. aka kiddie crack. I couldn’t say how many of these sugar shots I downed as a child… oblivious, of course, to the fact...
Strawberry Vanilla and Strawberry Balsamic Jam
I’ve been (not-so-patiently) waiting two years to make strawberry jam. The year I learned how to can I didn’t start until June or July, well...
Blood Orange Marmalade, Three Ways
Shades of red: marmalade edition. Actually, I discovered, plain blood orange marmalade isn’t all that red; rather it’s a lovely shade of rich orange with...
