Sep 4, 2012
It’s not like marinara is expensive to buy necessarily and tomato sauce definitely isn’t, so each year when the kitchen is destroyed and my back aches from standing all day I question why I go to all the work to make my own sauce. What makes me take on... 
Jul 26, 2012
I love summer for all the fresh fruits. I can’t keep myself from buying big bags of cherries and apricots and berries along with the usuals I have on hand – bananas and apples. Problem is I can’t begin to eat them all fast enough before they get too ripe... 
Jul 18, 2012
A nice ripe watermelon is right up there with tomatoes fresh off the vine as defining moments that it’s truly summer. I cut up the melon and keep it in the fridge – perfect cold snacking food when the temperature climbs. But for all the watermelon I’ve... 
Jun 3, 2012
I really like to use fresh ginger and would love to keep some on hand but as history goes, I buy a piece for a specific recipe, use a little and then throw the rest into the crisper only to find the shriveled little chunk weeks later when purging the fridge. Then I... 
Apr 17, 2012
Confit is one of those words that gets thrown around all the time but I was never quite sure what it meant although I was pretty sure a duck was almost always involved. So I did what I always do when in doubt – I Googled it – and found out that confit merely means to... 