rainier cherry and goat cheese tart – for slack lust

the wonderful people over at slack lust have featured a recipe of mine for their most recent issue!  check out my recipe for rainier cherry and goat cheese tart (otherwise known as “tarty for the party”) for their real housewives theme this month.  Read More

lemon curd with brooks cherries

i get nearly all my fruit from sweet tree farms. they sell next to us at the silverlake farmers’ market so we often trade veggies for fruits, and they have the most incredible stuff.  it’s all organic and in the summertime their stand it overflowing with all sorts of types of stone fruit – plums, cherries, pluots, apricots, peaches and nectarines!  the first cherries of the season were big, plump and very sweet; and apparently... Read More

spring fruit and rosemary oat cobbler – on the grill

happy memorial day!  this recipe would be perfect if you’re celebrating today with a barbecue: after the winter – the season of lots and lots…and lots of oranges, and maybe a few apples or pears – even once the weather warms up it takes a while for the good fruit to start coming back.  but when it does, the cherries and peaches can bring tears to my eyes.  even the first ones of the season are sweet and juicy and smile-inspiring. ... Read More

in season: english peas, green garlic, spring onions, stone fruit and summer squash!

i’m so sorry i’ve been away from the blog for so long.  after a very merry birthday, a bout of illness and some technical difficulties, cooking has been the last thing on my mind for the past few weeks.  it didn’t help that the produce at the market for the last few months has been dominated by dark leafy greens, root vegetables and oranges – lots and lots of oranges.  i had lost total interest in cooking, let alone posting. but... Read More