Easy Citrus Shortbread Cookies

It’s a lazy Sunday here in Berkeley, and I was getting the cooking itch.  My dinner tonight is easy – meat is marinating and there’s not much left to do.  I was having a cookie craving and decided to whip up a batch of shortbread.  This recipe could not be easier.  As proof, I offer [...]

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Cranberry Thing

I wanted to make a cranberry dessert for a Thanksgiving potluck.  Martha Stewart had this recipe for a New England Cranberry Duff. I am from New England and have never heard of a duff before.  After playing around with The Google and learning way more about this dude than I have ever cared to know, I learned that it’s usually made with [...]

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On vanity

Here’s the thing with food blogging.  You cook food for your friends, then you go online and tell everyone how awesome your food is.  It’s a little weird.  You just have to hope that you are an objective critic of your own cooking and that your friends aren’t just being polite when they tell you [...]

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An Arugulove First

I made something chocolate. Not just anything chocolate.  But the best brownies you will ever eat in your life.  I’m not kidding.  I don’t make a lot of chocolate desserts because I don’t really like them that much.  There are so many other things that are more interesting and more delicious, and I’m just never [...]

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30 Minute Dessert

When I got a huge bunch of rosemary in my recent farm share box, I started looking around for fun things to do with it.  Because I have an undying devotion to putting herbs in desserts, I went searching for something sweet.  This recipe from the New Orleans Times-Picayune came up, and I couldn’t resist. [...]

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Lunch in Wine Country

Over the weekend, we took a friend on a drive up to Napa Valley for some wine tasting and gorgeous views.  I packed a picnic lunch and we stopped at the gorgeous Diamond Oaks winery to eat. On the menu were chicken salad sandwiches, olives and roasted peppers, fresh strawberries from the farmers’ market, olive [...]

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Hibiscus Meringue Cookies with Pomegranate and Blood Orange

Welcome to the new place!  I decided to switch over because I liked the design options in WordPress better, and the site has more interesting tools to manage and monitor my posts.  I’ve still got a few kinks to work out (like the tag/categories feature), but I think this should be a better home.  Now, on [...]

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I embark on a labor of love

Good god. I had a holiday party to go to and wanted to make Christmas cookies for it. I was torn, however, between making really delicious cookies and making really beautiful cookies. Then, this piece about Zimtsterne, the German meringue-like Christmas cookie,popped up on my blog reader, prompted me to seek out a recipe, and [...]

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I am the love child of Martha Stewart and Chuck Todd

For my elections return party tomorrow night, I embraced my inner political nerd by baking cookies in the shape of swing states. I found the cookie cutters for sale online, and followed Martha’s sugar cookie recipe, which The Good Wife used a few weeks ago for her gorgeous fall sugar cookies. The recipe was fairly [...]

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Rose Geranium Cookies

This week’s CSA box contained lots of fun fall produce…sweet potatoes, chard, a pumpkin, and something called rose geranium. I assumed it was a flower, but it’s actually a very floral smelling herb. Imagine a cross between rose and sage.I wasn’t sure what to do with it, but Google came through. I found a recipe [...]

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