Category: Spring

<img alt="potato salad cornichons smoked paprika hard boiled eggs" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3460/3377055399_1aa95ebd32.jpg?v=1241141102" title="Potatoes Gribiche" class="alignnone" width="500" height="333" /><br /> With the weather getting warmer, my thoughts start straying in the direction of picnics. Picnics, according to my …

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3384/3422548923_266c94520b.jpg?v=1239990075" /> <br /> Apologies for the silly title. I'm a little punchy. It's been one of those weeks at work, where I'm constantly teetering on the brink of bursting into manic laughter, at …

I've never been the biggest fan of pasta (cue screams of horror from right-thinking people everywhere.) Oh sure, I'll eat it if Mario Batali is preparing it, but the standard home pasta dish of …

Springtime may be the most eagerly anticipated time of the year. I have vivid memories of the first warm day of each year when I lived on the East Coast – people would emerge …

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3649/3376089927_3db6ab3da8.jpg?v=0" alt="" /> <br /> I wasn’t going to post these at all. They didn’t come out exactly as I wanted them to – the cross wasn’t defined, the shape was a little wonky, and …

When Ken and I first moved to Los Angeles, we’d go to our favorite local bar every Sunday night. We’d sit in a booth sipping local microbrews and munching upmarket bar snacks like wood fired …

It’s confession time. I love mashed potatoes. I know they’re terribly unfashionable in our low glycemic-index, phytochemical-obsessed, Mediterranean Diet culture. They’re stodgy and white and lacking in high concentrations of flavonoids or anthocyanins, without the …