dairy-free

I’ve been in a bit of a cooking rut lately, keeping my head down and making my grocery lists and substituting a different fruit or vegetable or two each week to keep things somewhat interesting. Still cooking every day of course — meat sauce…

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…

** I worked on this post before the massive fires in my home county of Sonoma County began, and it’s been heavy on my heart and mind all week. If you feel so moved, please consider donating to help those who have lost everything…

We’ve been in Sydney — though if you’re being fussy, we technically live about 15 minutes outside of Sydney — for five months now and time has perhaps literally flown by. My baby is on the cusp of her first birthday and will walk…

The first month plus of our new life in Australia was marked by rain, rain, and more rain. It was actually quite wonderful after so many months spent in perpetually dry and dusty Riyadh (yes, there was a rainy season but it was more…