Summer doesn’t officially start until June 22nd. That is silly because It feels like summer now. It is humid. We have a rickety fan in the window so that we can deny it is time to haul the air conditioner up from the basement. Weird half mosquitos-half flies found their way into our bedroom. But [...]

Kitchen failures. That is the theme of January so far. First, my pita breads did not puff up in the oven. I pleaded with them. I rolled them thinner. But they ended up as limp mini pizzas. Was it me or the recipe? I can’t tell. Worst of all is that I just don’t have [...]

It was a weird week. The weather was cool and calm in the morning, thick with humidity by lunch, and then pelting my car with torrential downpours by dinner. Just today in the early evening at the sign of the rainstorm leaving, Brian and I finally walked around on the main strip of Brighton center. [...]

Before you assume it, I am not agave obsessed. Really. I know it is so cool to use agave these days. I keep seeing recipes in Bon Appetit calling for agave left and right. But, I was just curious about it as an ingredient. I live so close to a Trader Joe’s, and their agave [...]