[Mushroom galette, November 2008.]
There are days when all I think about is food — the preparing of it, how well certain dishes will pair with others, what specifically I should cook for a friend’s birthday, whether making the same dishes over and over again is a good thing or means simply that I am bo-ring, [...]

[Dinner the other night, November 2008.]
Some nights you cook and it’s just dinner, and some nights you cook and it’s dinner. I think you know the distinction? I’m happy most of the time with ‘just dinner’ though when I come up with ‘dinner‘ I can’t help but pat myself on the back a [...]

[Sunday night dinner, November 2008.]
Okay. Lately it seems like all I’ve been doing is baking — and it’s true that my oven’s been getting more of a workout than usual. I’ve scraped the sugar jar completely bare (maybe not a bad thing?) and gone through more butter than any person has a [...]

[My new favorite sandwich: pesto, spinach, fresh mozzarella, November 2008.]
I made pesto last week when my parents came in for dinner, and I ate it the next day for leftovers. Then I had it again a few nights later — one of the the perks of living alone is that there’s more for just [...]

[Sunday breakfast, November 2008.]
I love fruit — I love apples sliced and paired with sharp cheddar cheese, oranges peeled carefully and segmented, drippy nectarines eaten over the kitchen sink because they’re so juicy and ripe, cherries baked into muffins and pies, strawberries eaten out of hand as quickly as I can stuff them into my [...]