San Francisco is in the grips of one of its chilly summers. Sweet peas remind me that it’s it sunny and summery somewhere out there, even if my neighborhood is bathed in a gray light. Jake isn’t quite convinced that global warming is happening, but he’s no scientist. Well, it’s not what his degree is […]
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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,
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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