Before I dive into this tasty spiced pear bundt cake with vanilla glaze, I wanted to share a little bit about my special day with you guys. If you just want the pear bundt cake recipe, though, go ahead and scroll to the bottom...
One of the things I miss most about Oregon is the light dusting of snow we’d get a couple times a year. I grew up in a valley there so the snowfall was always really mild, just an inch or two thick, but goodness...
A couple months ago I got a request on instagram to make some pumpkin ice cream after I’d posted a picture of Trader Joe’s seasonal frozen pumpkin delight (one of the many pumpkin-flavored seasonal items they carry in the fall, I always look forward...
A few weeks ago Jeremy and I were finally able to take a brief trip up to Napa valley. We’d been wanting to go for a few years now but the scheduling never seemed to work out until early last month when we found...
I have a sad secret to share, my friends. For a long, long time, I hated the taste of whisky. This was due to several bad experiences with it in my younger years, and afterwards just the smell made me feel all squeamish and...
Last Christmas my family was all together and we were catching up on what we’d been up to. My theio (uncle) Niko was telling us about the chantarelles he’d been foraging for in the fall, and said that if I was around next autumn...
I was recently prompted to write about why I cook, and it took me a good amount of introspection to answer that question. I love to cook for a lot of reasons, but I think what drives me to the kitchen most frequently is...
Nothing makes me feel quite at peace with the cool weather as much as curling up with a hot cup of tea and a good book. And when I threw a tea-flavored donut into the mix, the cold hardwood floor and icy faucet water...
I hope you all had a lovely Halloween. Since this was me and Jeremy’s first Halloween as husband and wife, we were Frankenstein and the bride of Frankenstien, and am am sad to report that even with my hair I still didn’t even come...
When the weather starts to get chilly in southern California, I know that it must be getting truly cold in the rest of the country. And there’s nothing that takes the edge off of the cool, biting weather like a gooey, toasty, steaming hot...
Around mid-October, I begin to pine for the vibrant colors of the Oregon autumn, and look wistfully out the window at the relatively brownish landscape I’m surrounded by here in North Hollywood. This year, we decided to pop out of town for a weekend...
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to get to go on a local farm tour at the Tutti Frutti organic farmstead near Santa Barbara, California. Tutti Frutti is owned and operated by Chris Cadwell, an organic farmer whose mainstays are heirloom tomatoes...
