The potato plants are, officially, completely out of control at this point.
This picture was taking four days ago, and the plants are actually about a quarter again as big now as they were then. If this goes on much longer, they are going to swallow up our house. Which means it’s time to [...]
Even though it’s not technically summer yet, it’s feeling full-on summery these days. It’s hot and humid, and we’re all feeling pretty damn lazy.
The living? Is easy.
So this week I decided the best thing to do with my six quarts of borderline overripe strawberries was to make ice cream. I used the [...]
Well, it’s that time of year again — the twinkling lights are up, there’s advent calendar glitter all over our living room, and the stockings are hung on our bookshelves with care — it’s Marshmallow Season! December is, at stately IPB Manor, a bacchanal of Williams-Sonoma’s peppermint hot chocolate, and that hot chocolate is [...]
A few years ago I took a class at work taught by one of the executive chefs for the catering company that runs my employer’s cafeteria. It was all about making chocolates. The chef at one point off-handedly suggested everyone try the truffles from La Maison du Chocolat at some point in their [...]
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