Tag Archives: summer

Tickle Me Peaches

Oh the brilliant peach. Ripe and plump, the peach can be virgin like purity cloaked in a temperature sensitive skin. Precious and untouched as it hangs from an unassuming protective tree blushing, the peach hides a soft and aromatic flesh that loves you back once you bring her on down. Possibly the forbidden offspring of [...]

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Blueberries For Claire

And for the jam fellow. Ok, and my sister, my neice, my friends, and you! Enter The Blueberry… the best little berries out there. "Well, get here early." "Oh, so you get picked clean." "No, it's hot." And she wasn't kidding. In Florida I was sweating, or glistening, almost as soon as the sun came [...]

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The Case for Chili

It is in the mid 90s. People are sticky with sweat and frozen lemonade or ice cream bars are on every corner. No part of me wants a stick to your ribs bowl of red. Chili that is. Now with eye of any food based investigative reporter (like the title?) I could not help but [...]

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We Finally Hit Hot.

New Yorkers brought out the shorts, sneakers and strapless sun dresses in mass amounts today. In the first day of weather that did not require a coat, all of NYC seemed to be extra happy, extra nice and overwhelming appreciative of the blessing that is spring finally arriving. Seeing a precious youngster eating his first [...]

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It’s 2011, Where is Claire?

Do You Know where your Claire has been?? It becomes obvious you’ve been busy doing other things when all your [...]

Giving Gluten a Rest

Baker to the core, gluten might be my best friend. Hand in hand, we skipped through bread hills on the [...]

Gingerbread Man Joy

Run, Run As Fast As You Can…. Time to Catch the Gingerbread Man Gazing over the edge of the counter [...]

Pancakes, A Happy Place

Pancakes Of Plenty Growing up, making pancakes meant that we got a box, stirred in milk and eggs with a [...]

Classic Ole Brownie

Back to school and chill in the air means one thing to me… time for a classic. When nothing but [...]

Tickle Me Peaches

Oh the brilliant peach. Ripe and plump, the peach can be virgin like purity cloaked in a temperature sensitive skin. [...]