Category: Seasonal

With the dog days of summer still to come, it's useful to have a few recipes up your sleeve that require NO cooking. Not three hours in the oven, not 30 minutes on the …

The first meal you cook in a new kitchen feels portentous. As if the success or failure of all future culinary endeavors rests on the results of that one meal. It shouldn't be too …

Whew. Well we moved. And although we're not yet totally unpacked (far from it), my kitchen is starting to look like a functional kitchen, and I'm beginning to have glimmers of interest in …

We are in full on girly mode in the The Domestic Front household. The Nuni is two and a half years old, and is seriously interested in the following (in no particular order):  …

\ I don't really understand the marketing of Mother's Day. I see all these floral pastel cards and delicate lacy handkerchiefs and early morning breakfast in bed and advertisements for "brunch" and "afternoon tea" with …

I'm not much of a muffin girl. Despite my rather extreme sweet tooth, I don't tend to like sweets for breakfast, and most muffins are just cupcakes without frosting. And the times I …

Spring has sprung. Sure, I live in LA, where a sunny day could just as easily mean December as it could April. People are always exhibiting various degrees of suntan (usually related to …