’tis the season already — we’ve installed a real tree for the first time in five years and our house is softly perfumed with the scent of the outdoors. For the last few years in San Francisco we had a tree that was cut…
So it’s the day after here — how did everything go? Did you make a pumpkin pie or a sweet potato tart or maybe even an apple crisp? We spent part of the day at the beach and it was a gloriously warm yet…
baking dairy-free holidays recipe sweets vegetables
Thanksgiving 2017 / Pumpkin Cake with Cinnamon-Cocoa Streusel
My Thanksgiving menu is set, a good thing since I’ve just realized the holiday is next week. Strange to commemorate a holiday that celebrates the harvest, autumn, and the earliest inhabitants of another continent when one is living in a (granted, also a former…
Thursday has become “soup for dinner night”, in part because I can make a pot of soup on a Wednesday while the big girl is at preschool. I set up my no knead bread — fortunately it’s a forgiving recipe as I sometimes let…
Me again, the one who is still kind of on the Northern Hemisphere’s schedule despite the purple jacaranda trees, birds merrily singing us awake before 6 a.m., the grass turning green and temperatures inching ever upwards — all signs of spring in most parts…