Yes Virginia, there is more to life than takeout and the microwave
With this years supply of Blood Orange’s coming to a end, I’ve been getting my fill of those juicy delectable oranges. My first contact with those ruby red fleshed beauties came on my first trip to Rome when the hotel we stayed at served a red orange juice that I mistakenly took for grapefruit [...]
A few weeks ago, I noticed that Nectarines were becoming scarce at the market, that made me sad…sigh. Nectarines bring back so many memories of my childhood up through high school, and as much as I love peaches, nothing beats a good nectarine. So when I noticed that the season was coming to [...]
What an incredible week this has been, well at least weather wise that is! I can’t believe it was 65 degrees January 31, sunny and blue skies…..it felt like spring!! We really have been lucky this winter, except for a few days here and there and one light snowfall, we have had nothing but above [...]
Sunday Morning I woke up craving chocolate, I new I must be feeling better! I haven’t made anything for breakfast for the past few weekends so it felt good to get up with enough energy to bake. I try to find recipes that don’t take a lot of time to make, I get up earlier [...]
Once again I have to say TGIF…… If at all possible this week was even crazier than last week, but the worst part was the humidity. You expect a kitchen to be hot, but when there is no airflow, and all the equipment is on, it can be very difficult to breathe when the [...]
After gorging myself on cherries every night for the past few days, I finally decided to bake something while I still had a few on hand. I didn’t want to make anything too decadent or sweet today so I my turned to muffins, or as I like to think of them “almost cupcakes”. I [...]
