Those Buttermilk Cookies
Although I’ve had them bookmarked for over a year, I’d been hesitating to make these cookies, thinking they might be too simple and old-fashioned for my (ha ha) discriminating tastes. Well, they do...
View ArticlePlease Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Four. That’s the number of times I’d tried to make Lori Longbotham’s Ultimate Lemon Pound Cake. It’s also the number of times I have been reduced to a quivering, demoralized failure on account of it....
View ArticleSweet Spring
I spent a recent weekend in DC for the cherry blossom festival, and was fortunate to have absolutely splendid weather and even lovelier company. Although it wasn’t necessarily a food-centric trip, I...
View ArticleMysteries of Pittsburgh
I took a little drive yesterday and ended up vaguely lost somewhere in Braddock, where the street was lined with older, slightly run-down homes and a few boarded-up storefronts. As I turned on to a...
View ArticleRaspberry Buttermilk Cake
In case anyone was wondering, I haven’t disappeared just yet. I’ve felt a little uninspired lately, though, and when I get busy with work and nonbloggy pursuits, I tend to take a minimalist approach...
View ArticleRoasted Apricots with Rosemary
I don’t know about you, but this time of year turns me into a complete glutton for fruit. Between the CSA box bringing blueberries and peaches, cherries and nectarines on sale at the grocery stores,...
View Article
