I got a beautiful basket of multi-colored cherry tomatoes. I thought it would make a beautiful pizza and it did.
Usually, fresh tomatoes have a lot of water that comes out when you cook them making a pizza crust soggy so you have to salt the tomatoes ahead of time to draw the water out. I [...]

I love Mark Bittman. His recipe ideas are truly simple, practical and mostly fast. He seems to get what it means to put a healthy dinner on the table every night.
His 101 recipe articles in the New York Times are always a highlight. Last week he published 101 simple salads for the season. There are lots of [...]

We moved into our house 4 years ago and every year we still find surprises. This year, a weed I was too lazy to pull, turned into a fig tree. It provides for a great view outside my kitchen window. We didn’t get many figs, but I was thrilled because a caterer friend tantalized me with [...]

photo from Farm Girl’s World
 
My daughter got invited to two birthday parties today. One is for a pizza and movie night and the other one is for an afternoon party at the park with delivered pizza and birthday cake.
Do you serve pizza at your kid’s birthday? If so, do you make it our order out?

 I pick up my CSA box of vegetables from Terra Firma Farms on Wednesday.
Of course I got some zucchini! See my June recipe for more on zucchini.
As my countertop overflowed with summer abundance, I couldn’t decide what to put on my whole wheat pizza dough, so I put a little bit of everything. I caramelized a red onion for the sauce [...]