Dirty and Delicious

Yummmm. If I have a "signature" baked good, it's these fabulous salted caramel shortbread bars. These are insanely, unbel...

The garden has come a long way since I tricked my buff sister into clearing it out for me.  The garden when we bought the house.  To...

Today was my last day of summer! And a momentous summer it was--a perfect wedding, a spectacular honeymoon, our tadpoles turned into fr...

Sometimes you just feel like being bad .  I cook for a lot of reasons--virtue isn't one of them. There are enough (white) people in ...

I adapted this recipe from an old copy of Everyday Food--the original recipe is for cashew chicken, but I couldn't find raw cashews a...

A rich, sticky pot of meat and tomato goodness. After two weeks of our Belize fish-and-beer diet, I was really craving something meaty a...

My favorite vacation destination is anywhere with palm trees and baby-blue water. So when we were planning our honeymoon, as soon as I saw p...