This morning I woke to the sound of freezing rain pelting against the glass skylight above our bed, and was reminded that we are still deep in the thralls of winter. Dreams of garden-fresh tomatoes be damned. But, we do have plenty of delicious...

Those of you who have been here for the long haul know that when we remodeled our kitchen several years ago we went with a vintage gas Roper range from the 1950’s. Well, over the years that decision became a liiiiiiittle bit of a...

Remember when I mentioned those winter storms the other week? Well, they arrived with a vengeance and turned my garage photo studio into a large and lovingly furnished icebox, so I don’t have any recipes to share with you today. But that’s a good...

I hope you all had a lovely holiday + happy new year. Jeremy and I spent it here in Oregon with my family and copious amounts of baklava, as can be expected at any Greek Christmas gathering. My dad still insists on making it...

Hey! It’s me. Pushing right up to the acceptable holiday cookie baking cut-off date and sliding into your screen with a steaming plate of these wickedly tasty orange and espresso gingerbread cookies. Orange? Espresso? Has she finally lost it? <- What you might be asking...

We’re heading right on into gift-giving season, and if you’re looking for an easy and cozy homemade gift to share with friends and family, I’ve got a liiiittle something up my sleeve for ya. Enter, homemade bath salt. I LOVE (!) a good bath...

Things have been kind of crazy around here. I’ve been sloooooowly going through all the ceramics and linens and cookware I’ve accumulated over the years for my food photography stuff in order to put together a studio sale with the hopes of lightening the...

Once the rain starts I tend to get a liiiittle stir crazy. All summer long I spend lots and lots of time outside in the garden, and then fall rolls around, the garden gets yellowed and wilted, and I’m coerced by nature into spending...

Sometimes throughout the year I’ll come across recipes that I want to adapt for particular seasons or ingredients, and this happens to be one of them. I first came across this recipe for Pane Bianco while scrolling through King Arthur Flour’s bread section (as...

Well my friends, it’s officially October, which means two things. 1) My daily footwear has switched from a carefree summery sandal to my mud-crusted & weather-worn rubber boots, and 2) it’s time to eat as many apples as humanly possible. Here in our neck...

Summer is almost at a close, and that means that the sweet tender blackberry is about to have its swan song for the year. Blackberries are my favorite fruit—when they’re perfectly ripe, nothing can legitimately compare to the complex sweet, floral, tart and deeply...

Well it certainly has been a while since I’ve updated about the homestead’s progress. Two years, in fact! I’d hoped to update each year at the very least, but to be honest, last year was incredibly difficult and it was hard to talk or...