Category: Summer

With the dog days of summer still to come, it's useful to have a few recipes up your sleeve that require NO cooking. Not three hours in the oven, not 30 minutes on the …

The first meal you cook in a new kitchen feels portentous. As if the success or failure of all future culinary endeavors rests on the results of that one meal. It shouldn't be too …

Whew. Well we moved. And although we're not yet totally unpacked (far from it), my kitchen is starting to look like a functional kitchen, and I'm beginning to have glimmers of interest in …

I'm not much of a muffin girl. Despite my rather extreme sweet tooth, I don't tend to like sweets for breakfast, and most muffins are just cupcakes without frosting. And the times I …

People who don't live in Los Angeles say that we don't have seasons. The sun is always shining, the grass is always green, it's always swimming pool weather. That's not entirely true. We …

It can't possibly be September already. Wasn't it just Easter? What happened to the Fourth of July? I was going to spend this summer at the beach (yep, still milky white here), …

Pop Quiz: What do you make when it's 95 degrees outside, the very thought of turning on the oven makes you melt into a syrupy mess and yet you're craving a delicious, starchy, baked-good …