I came back from Seattle with a box full of strawberries. I am known to carry all kinds of fruit and produce through security checkpoints - as f they were the most expensive glass in the world. From what I was told, it was about a week too early for the ripest strawberries in Seattle. On ...
My dad and I snuck out of the house without telling anyone where we were going. He grabbed his camera, I grabbed my camera, and we tippy-toed out the door. We decided we would go explore the little neighborhoods that surround my hometown, Amorebieta, where life seems to stand still.I rolled down the window, rested ...
It is all about these beets ... and those stripes. My weekly trips to the farmer's market have been fruitful. I come back with a loaded basket of watercress, tangled pea shoots, heirloom tomatoes, microgreens, kale, Sicilian eggplants, carrots that are twister into knots, and a rainbow of beets. I have been cooking with beets nearly everyday. Simply ...
As you might remember, we spent the week of Thanksgiving in Montana where a large part of C's family lives. We were eager to see family, mountains, the big open sky, and hopefully some fresh snow. It had been six years since the last time I had visited. I missed the vast land and wilderness. ...
We are away.In a place that feels so far from our everyday lives.We are here with family, gearing up for a Thanksgiving feast, in which the menu has yet to be finalized. And this is all fine because we are comfortable - sitting around the fire telling stories.I made these tartlets last week while my ...