I have been spending a chunk of time browsing the web. Jumping from one blog to another, like a kid skipping on the top of stones across a river. It is a rush, full of discovery and occasional slips into a time warp.
Most of my posts are full of recipes and methods, but I couldn’t [...]

As in: no white shoes before Easter, loose the leg warmers and satin is out.
This meal is all wrong. I learned in cooking school that it is important to consider the combination of foods on a given plate. In other words, what are the varying textures? Are the colors contrasting? Do you have a protein, [...]

Ciao! It has been awhile, I know.
I confess, I have been blogging more on our family blog (www.familyfrolics.com) than I have here. Mostly because my chatter has been more about travel—from our year abroad—than about food. Most of my posts on this blog function as a means to provide you stellar recipes and simple [...]

I get a kick out of little memes; mostly I ignore them but sometimes they cause me to giggle knowingly, or learn something new about a new or long-standing friend. This one about ‘3 things’ was sent my way from my friend Alisa at One Frugal Foodie. Answering little factoids can offer a chance to [...]

No it isn’t a misspelling; bol is actually a Dutch word, a description of a certain kind of treat.
I have seen apple bol, chocolate bol and the boys ate hazelnut bols (pictured). An apple bol is [generally speaking] a whole apple, cored and filled with brown sugar/cinnamon/butter and wrapped in puff pastry and baked. The [...]

As I write this, I am days from leaving… yet when this posts goes live I will have been gone for a few weeks.
We (family of four) packed up our lives and [when you read this] are cycling across the Netherlands, parts of Belgium, a smidgen of Germany and into Paris. We made the big [...]