in the Hopeful Kitchen

I'm still obsessing over blackberries from our big u-pick trip a couple weeks ago. Blackberry ice cream is now my favorite ice cream f...

It's zucchini season!  The time of year where zucchini plants have grown into large, bushy monsters overflowing with zukes that go from...

Tartine Bakery on the corner of Guerrero and 18th in San Francisco used to be my neighborhood bakery when I lived there a few years ago....

When I'm at the library I like to pick up books on subjects I don't know anything about.  That's how I end up with  Writing Pict...

This past weekend we drove over the Santa Cruz Mountains to the coast to go berry picking.  It was an ideal morning for it -- the fog hadn...

I love grilling.  Or, more accurately, I love finding amazing-looking grill recipes and telling my sweetheart to grill them.  Summer is suc...

A friend mentioned this salad years ago and it just sounded weird.  I think it slipped in and out of my mind without hesitation --my thought...