… for stress and baking. What? I think they go together, at least sometimes (the real question being, of course: does baking alleviate stress or does baking cause the stress? Discuss!).
It’s also the season for allowing oneself to take a break, even if for just half a day. On Saturday I [...]

Menu For Hope is an annual fundraiser put together by food bloggers around the globe to raise money for a world cause — the U.N. World Food Programme, and this year a school lunch program in Lesotho, Africa — which runs December 10-24. For every US$10 donated, the donor receives a virtual raffle ticket toward [...]

Another run in the rain, this time colder and faster than the last. My shoes and shirt were sopping by the time I made it home, and after a very hot shower to warm up again, the only thing I wanted was to drink a lot of water, and then to eat a big [...]

Well, the Times agrees: babka is worth the effort, just like I wroteabout the other day. The crumbs from my efforts have long since been swept away, but the memory lingers; I think I’ll be baking another few loaves in the coming weeks.
For oh, delicious holidays, you are here at last! I know [...]

[Babka for Thanksgiving, November 2007.]
Poised on the last day of November for the quick slip-side into the madness of the season (for me, the true holiday period begins in December), it’s chilly here in San Francisco — we Californians would call it cold, even, though I know it’s not East Coast cold, or Norway-cold, or [...]