I've been thinking about summer a lot lately. With all of this rain that has been pounding the San Francisco Bay Area, it's hard not to want to sn...
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I got a text message the other day, from my friend who is on her honeymoon in Italy. She and I met actually when we were both studying abroad in S...
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When we first came up with the idea of the Pairings Box, I'm not sure I ever had the intention of following through. But here we are, having spent...
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For a couple of years in my twenties, I was lucky enough to travel to New York for work. I remember listening to my hype song — Rihanna's Umbrel...
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*Serves four 1/4 cup of olive oil 1 large onion, peeled and roughly chopped 1 teaspoon of ground turmeric 1/2 teaspoon of garam masala 1 te...
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For the shrimp: 1 pound of shrimp 1/4 teaspoon of chipotle chili powder* 1/2 lime, squeezed 1 teaspoon of clementine zest (from 1/2 of a cle...
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Serves four 1 persimmon, thinly sliced with a mandoline 1/4 seeded serrano chile, very thinly sliced (optional) 3 ounces of prosciutto slices ...
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I’ve never been a cupcake person. I’m not much for pie, either. But it takes a certain type of cupcake (and a certain type of pie) to win my h...
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March is lot like a long, flat stretch of road somewhere. It’s far enough away from where you’ve left (winter) and not quite to where you’re h...
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makes one quart 1 1/2 cup of whole milk 1 1/2 cup of heavy cream 3 large eggs + 2 large egg yolks 1/4 cup of fragrant honey 1/3 cup of suga...
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My favorite sites, blogs, and magazines, often feature articles written about people. People I don’t even know, but they’re the most interesti...
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It's Negroni Week, and to celebrate, I'm revisiting one of my favorite drinks for any occasion. I wrote about the classic Negroni last year, a...