My dad grew up in a poor, single-mother family in LA during the Fifties. Every Sunday, the family would walk to church, along roads that were bordered by empty lots (this is before LA became the overdeveloped city it is today) where collard greens often grew wild. My dad and his siblings would leave the […]

I am so happy with how these notebooks turned out that I’m going to print the same image on linen tonight. I’ll sew zippered bags using the linen. Of course, I didn’t make it to Peapod yesterday (I was too busy making mac n cheese and not-so-spicy hot wings) and the shop is closed today,

One must never let chocolate ganache go to waste, especially when it’s been made with a huge bar of Scharffen Berger chocolate. Basak made me take a bag of extra macaron filling (yes, she practically forced it on poor, unsuspecting me). I’d thought about smearing it on bread, but that would have required making bread.

I spent yesterday morning with my friends Basak, Hillary, and Baby Mia baking macarons. Well, three-month-old Mia didn’t bake, but she was our team mascot. Our very cute team mascot. Now that I know how to bake macarons, I fear I will start making them all the time. You know, the same way I made

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