All Four Burners

When did I become such a slacker? Wait, don’t answer that. I fear your answer. To be honest, I’m not a slacker. I made 3 batches of strawberry preserves (1 chutney; 2 jams) for this month’s Can It Up with dried fruit. But only 1 is making it to the blog. Slacker? Or procrastinator? You […]

The weather has been so wacky! We had an early spring (which doesn’t bode well for fire season), but the rest of the country has had a late one! It snowed in Denver today…which was further evidence that we did the right thing by moving back to California. I literally (albeit figuratively) wouldn’t have survived […]

High-altitude baking intimidates me. I know the gougeres turned out fine last week. But those didn’t contain any leavening agents. Bread requires leaveners. Sometimes, as in this case, even 2. I’ve spent months avoiding baking whenever possible. I’ve combed the interwebs to understand the science and — let’s be honest here — exact formulas that […]

You know what I love most of all about living in California? Access to cheap strawberries. Ok, ok, maybe not what I love most of all, but it certainly ranks up there. And it surely feels like it at this time of year. There are so many stalls of strawberries at every farmers market that […]

Please marinate your meat. Also, marinade is yummy. (FitSugar) Berries + summer = bliss. And this dressing probably makes the berries even better, if that was possible. (San Francisco Chronicle) More on marinades. (Guardian) We are drowning in strawberries here in California. And I’m not complaining. (Bon Appetit) NEED! (New York Times)