What’s for dinner?
Baking Paska Bread for Easter
What a beautiful, productive, sunny, springy day-before-Easter-Sunday. Beautiful, sunny and springy because the mid-50s warmth was … [Read More]
What’s for dessert?
“Double Treat” Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
I don't need bookmarks in my cookbooks. They naturally fall open to the most oft-used pages, guided by oil stains and batter … [Read More]
In the Fresh Domestic Kitchen
Taco Pockets
This is a super easy recipe I stole - er, adapted - from my sister's mother-in-law. The first time I visited her house, she made this family favorite Taco Ring. I reduced the recipe and renamed it Taco Pocket. At this size, it's plenty for one or two people, especially with a side of Mexican rice. 1. Brown 1/3 lb … [Read More]
Seafood Pizza
Seafood Pizza: shrimp + scallops + crab + bacon + red onion + garlic + white asparagus + jalapeno hollandaise … [Read More]
In the Fresh Domestic Garden
The Power of a Plant
Interesting to stumble upon this plant (on the clearance rack, no less) while I'm reading a chapter in "The Source Field … [Read More]
Flower Garden
No words to blog today, just pictures of vividly bright flowers from my garden that say it better in color than I can in … [Read More]
Around Town + Beyond
Cleveland’s Hessler Street Fair
You know summer has kicked off in Cleveland, not because of the weather (which has a mind of its own), but because of the festivals. Last weekend, with unseasonably warm 80 degree weather beckoning, we loaded the car full of friends and headed to the Hessler Street Fair. This was my first time down Hessler … [Read More...]
Night on the Town: Pickwick and Frolic
Think crepes are just for breakfast? I did, and boy was I wrong. Last night I finally had the pleasure of dining at Pickwick and Frolic on East 4th Street, downtown Cleveland, where my boyfriend serves and bartends. For a year, I’ve been listening to him rave about the scallops, so it was about time I put Pickwick’s … [Read More...]
