Garden

I have been very inspired by the color palettes floating around the blogs right now.  I have figured out a few websites over the last few months  that allow you to make them but,  ultimately, I would have to pay $ to upgrade to the right adobe program or similar program.  Since I didn’t pay ...

Just wanted to share some garden love…

We had our first red tomatoes this week!  Thank you, God, for letting the sun out to make them nice and ripe. I always try my first tomato with a few speckles of sea salt.  Next, I could think of no better way to honor the tomato than with my version of a BLAT.  I baked ...

I have mentioned before that I LOVE old things.  The term that is popular right now is “vintage” which sounds cool and everything but before it became “vintage” and therefore popular, it was just something old to be tossed aside.  Junk is popular again…wha?  I’m sure this will fade in time but right now I ...

This dish is a favorite of mine for a quick dinner.  It is a one pot dish which is always lovely if you cook 3 meals a day like me.  I enjoy making food that is simple, but enters your mouth tasting more complex than it is.  This is just part of building flavor and ...

One of my favorites, this salad.  I first had a beet salad several years ago at the Pebble Beach, CA restaurant, Club XIX (amazing place, by the way).  This kind of salad was hardly popular yet and I was hooked right then and there.  This restaurant also is responsible for my husband and myself becoming ...

One of 4 kumquat trees we enjoy. Kumquat Mojito 3 kumquats, halved 1 sprig of mint, leaves only 1 oz lime juice 2 oz rum 2 oz simple syrup (1/1 ratio sugar to water, dissolved) ice, to fill the shaker Muddle kumquats and mint in shaker. Add juice, rum, syrup, and ice. Shake vigorously. Poor everything into a Collins glass (as pictured), add straw, and enjoy! Kid’s ...

I’m SO excited that after lovin’ on our blackberry plant for 2 years, we are going to have HUNDREDS of blackberries this year!! What should I make?  

This week is teacher appreciation week (why this is right before school gets out and not in the thick of the school-year…i dunno) and Mother’s Day is on Sunday so this is a quick and affordable free (!) little change. I happen to be prepping some flowers for our newly minted 6 year-old’s birthday party ...

“I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world ...