farfalle pasta

yesterday i taught myself to make pasta dough right on the counter top, mixing the eggs in a little well in the center of a mound of flour. ...

indoor grilled shrimp

          when i was out running this morning, shakespeare's sonnet 18 met me in the sprouting stems of the forsythia, dogwood, and redb...

poached chicken

we produce as little garbage as possible at our house because it pains us to think about something we used ending up in a landfill somewhere...

lemon tea bread

this lemon tea bre ad is my gift to my father every year for his birthday and for father's day. lemon is one of his favorite flavors for...

homemade ketchup

i do not like to drink from a plastic cup.  or eat with plastic utensils.  or sit at a plastic table on a plastic chair.            sure, so...