Our Share of the Harvest

In case you haven’t seen the zillions of commercials telling you to buy flowers and candy or taken a stroll through a card aisle that has been swathed in pink or red, Valentine’s Day is upon us.  As such, the theme for this month’s What’s Baking is baking with V-day colors. I had those leftover [...]

  When I was in middle school, I despised Valentine’s Day with the fire of a thousand Black Hole Suns (you like the grunge reference, teenagers of the 90′s??).  The whole day was the epitome of preteen/teenage awkwardness.  The guy you liked gave flowers to someone else, your best friend was embarrassed to the core [...]

Or, alternatively titled, “Oh shit, I let the expensive artisan bread get kinda hard and stale.  Now what?” Because that’s exactly how this meal came to be.  I bought a nice loaf of rosemary-olive oil bread to be cubed for a fun cheese fondue dinner.  That night, I worked until 8 pm and just really, [...]

I love love love runny eggs and they have been BIG on the food scene in the last few years.  Runny eggs on burgers, salads, pasta dishes, you name it.  Sometimes I thin foods are suited to having dripping, underdone, should-be-gross-but-is-delectable yolk gushing out over them and sometimes…not so much.  Because I think runny eggs, [...]

We got snow in October.  OCTOBER!  And, since then, we’ve had just a small dusting.  Lucky for me, I happened to bake for this month’s challenge–a “snow day treat”–on the day we got that dusting.  It was cold and icy and even though I wasn’t the one who had to walk the dog, I wanted [...]