Category: Seasonal

It’s Friday, and if you are anything like me, (or you know, breathing) your thoughts turn towards the weekend. Are you planning on spending time at the beach? In the garden? Catching a movie? Sleeping …

It’s May in Southern California. The mornings are foggy, the jacarandas are in bloom, the days are warm, though the nights are cool, and the afternoons are stretching further into the sun dappled evenings. Aesthetically, it's …

I know what you're saying to me. You're saying, "Kate, it is Mother's Day on Sunday and you have provided me with NO recipes to prepare/give to my children to prepare for Mother's Day …

<img alt="potato salad cornichons smoked paprika hard boiled eggs" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3460/3377055399_1aa95ebd32.jpg?v=1241141102" title="Potatoes Gribiche" class="alignnone" width="500" height="333" /><br /> With the weather getting warmer, my thoughts start straying in the direction of picnics. Picnics, according to my …

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3384/3422548923_266c94520b.jpg?v=1239990075" /> <br /> Apologies for the silly title. I'm a little punchy. It's been one of those weeks at work, where I'm constantly teetering on the brink of bursting into manic laughter, at …

I suspect that the time for writing posts about butternut squash and eating things made with butternut squash is quickly drawing to a close. You all want asparagus and rhubarb and meyer lemons and things …

I've never been the biggest fan of pasta (cue screams of horror from right-thinking people everywhere.) Oh sure, I'll eat it if Mario Batali is preparing it, but the standard home pasta dish of …