This is our harvest. Or some of it anyway. Apparently it’s only a tenth of the carrots still waiting to be pulled up (according to my husband). The beets were pretty pathetic because I didn’t water them, so the post I was supposed to do this summer entitled, “What the heck to do with a beet!” had to be postponed… Read More

The recipe I am sharing with you today is not the one I intended to share with you. My neighbor’s gave me a pumpkin from their garden and I intended to make a honey-mustard pumpkin soup with half and a pumpkin pie for my neighbors with the other half. That would give them a pleasant shock. The French don’t eat… Read More

I’ve been grieving lately because my friend Stacy died of cancer two weeks ago, leaving behind a husband and son the same age as Young Knight. My husband was their wedding photographer and her husband was our immigration lawyer. He left his law career to go into the military and they endured a year’s separation while he was overseas. Their… Read More

So guys, poser that I am, I tried to make the fondant patissier that most sane people buy in the store when they want to make patisserie. It’s the thing that makes the white glaze on top of the vanilla éclair, and you flavor it with coffee or chocolate for the other “parfums.” It all looked so easy here. Greased… Read More

How do you like your flan? Nice soft and pudding-y? Sweet chewy and stick to your ribs-y? I sure hope it’s the latter cuz that’s what we’re dishing up today. I almost called it “Happy Flan” because it’s the first recipe I’m posting from my nearly finished new kitchen. Some have been clamoring for pictures (thank you for feeding my… Read More

This recipe is my last hurrah before we break the kitchen with these tiles to put a new kitchen in with a huge stove (hooray!), with a lot of counter space so I’m not tempted to use the lid of the garbage can (hooray!), and with a dishwasher (hurrah!). I’m going to paint it pink to match these towels. No… Read More