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...

Our raspberry bushes were in prime form this year. Honestly I’ve never seen this volume of raspberries from the garden before, every part of the bushes was heavy with fruit. We couldn’t eat them all fast enough so I ended up freezing quite a...

I love a good, thin, baked and layered potato situation. When the edges around the slices get nice and crispy, and the center stays fluffy and soft, it’s just absolute texture perfection. So I put together this little creamy potato fennel bake to get...

The first appearance of apricots at the market signals the start of that lovely, leisurely slide into stone fruit season, and boy am I glad. After the hard and unforgiving root vegetables of winter and the optimistically crunchy peas of spring, I’m ready for...

This past April I returned to Cognac to host a photography workshop with my friend and fellow photographer, Elise Dumas of The Pineapple Chef. I first met Elise at a workshop I hosted years ago in Spain, and was immediately drawn in by her...