Archive | September, 2009

Summer Fruits and Veg

It’s probably safe to say that everyone agrees one of the best things about summer is the abundance of gorgeous fruits and vegetables we find at our neighborhood groceries, fruit stands and farmers markets that ultimately end up in our kitchen sinks. Bright and beautiful in color, juicy-delicious, bursting with flavor, it’s fruits and veggies [...]

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Instinctual bread

We are experiencing unusually hot weather here in the midwest.  It’s unusual because we have been having a pretty cold summer in general. It’s only the last couple of weeks that have been sweltering! So, while nursing my air conditioner along, the expectation of the next season quickens my baking pulse.  I begin to dream [...]

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IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, Toluca Lake CA

Ca’ Del Sole has long been one of my favorite neighborhood restaurants. Located in a little Mediterranean-style building with washed ‘mustard’ colored stucco walls and pots of geraniums on the outside walls, this is an Italian restaurant with a Tuscan flare. The main dining rooms are chic and inviting with displayed Italian pottery, beautiful framed [...]

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