recipe – clover ‘wiches… dark chocolate mint chip ice cream sandwiches
There are several major inventions in human history worth celebrating. The camera. The computer. The light bulb. Penicillin. But none more exciting than the invention of hand-held ice cream....
View Articlerecipe – red, white & blue baked potato chips
Yesterday I went to Joanne’s to get supplies for this Sunday’s Easter egg hunt (more on that later). I strolled in hoping to pick up some extra plastic eggs, pastel-colored ribbon, and maybe a little...
View Articlerecipe – mini beef bourguignon pot pies
On the very rare occasions when I toss my pescetarianism aside, it usually means I’m in the presence of bacon. Or perhaps… bacon-and-wine-braised beef. Actually, any meat that has been wrapped,...
View Articlerecipe – roasted beets with balsamic, fresh mint & goat cheese
The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet...
View Articlerecipe – dark chocolate chip banana bread & mini muffins
I’m a green banana person. I know, I know… “Gross!” most people are thinking. Whatever. You can have your boring old yellow bananas and I will savor the starchy-crisp-green-grassness of my underage...
View Articlerecipe – cherimoya sorbet
If the artichoke had a cuter, younger fruit sister, it would be the cherimoya. I always walk by these things at the farmer’s market. I guess I put them in the same category as mangosteen, starfruit,...
View Articlerecipe – araucana pesto eggs
Before I moved in with Josh, his thrice-daily staple meal consisted of a heavy rotation of approx 30 different breakfast cereals which he ate from a glass Pyrex cup (an effective eating vessel, I soon...
View Articlerecipe – grilled scallops on rosemary skewers
I’m hooked on the Santa Monica Seafood Market. It throws me back to the days when I was 4 years old, running around the pier looking in people’s buckets to see how many fish they had caught. Usually...
View Articlerecipe – mulberry pie
Mulberries are in season! These cute little hot-dog-shaped berries only come around for a few weeks each year, so get ‘em while they last. There are a couple ways to find mulberries: Stalk and forage...
View Articlerecipe – rotisserie leg of lamb
A few weeks ago, the American Lamb Board (yes! we love them) invited me to participate in their Summer O-Lamb-Pics recipe contest. So I figured, what better time to put our rotisserie to good use?...
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