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Blueberry, Lime, and Mint Pop Tarts 27 Aug 2013 | 01:04 am
“… I already loved you in some vague wherever, and my nostalgia for that love makes everything in my present life a tedium. Perhaps you are just my nostalgia for something, an embodiment of some absen...
Brown Butter Peach Crumb Bars 21 Aug 2013 | 08:52 pm
Two spoonfuls of sugar + a healthy spatter of lemon juice. Prepping tea is almost as natural and automatic as breathing. Once the euphoria of morning coffee has dwindled down to a few wispy puffs of s...
Blueberry, Goat Cheese, and Rosemary Hand Pies 16 Aug 2013 | 04:31 am
Hot summer has exhausted her intent To the last rose and roundelay and seed. No leaf has changed, and yet these leaves now read Like a love-letter that’s no longer meant. ~ Richard Wilbur, from secti...
Blueberry-Strawberry Pie 10 Aug 2013 | 07:30 am
It's Friday night. I'm enjoying refreshing spoonfuls of a still-too-frozen margarita - which in turn is making me take notice of things that normally elude my tequila free mind: The sound of my cats e...
Cherry Clafoutis 6 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a c...
Blueberry Crumb Bars with Rosemary Crust 30 Jul 2013 | 10:20 pm
I grew up listening to my mom's old records (and cassette tapes) of Jacques Brel, The Mamas & The Papas, Françoise Hardy, and Simon & Garfunkel - maybe a little Neil Diamond too. Each song felt like a...
Cherry Slab Pie 24 Jul 2013 | 11:17 pm
July Tonight the fireflies light their brief candles in all the trees of summer— color of moonflakes, color of fluorescent lace where the ocean drags its torn hem over the dark sand. ~ Linda Pasta...
Bouchon Bakery chocolate chip cookies 19 Jul 2013 | 04:05 am
I never get hot. I'm that annoying person who's hugging their legs whilst bundled up in a sweater as soon as someone turns on the AC in their car. Hi. Thanks to the current heat wave, that's all chang...
Key Lime Pie with Cornmeal-Cocoa Graham Crust 13 Jul 2013 | 11:08 pm
Yesterday, as I was about to commence with the pre-weekend vacuum cleaner run, I heard a dusty, gritty, thump on the chimney flue - followed by another...and another. My cats, of course, were obliviou...
Stone Fruit Pie 9 Jul 2013 | 09:17 pm
Last night my mind refused to shift gears and go into serene mode. I tried the usual harbingers of sleep - reading, my 'sounds of the forest' app, ice cream & honey...nothing worked. Finally I just st...
