in the Hopeful Kitchen

One of my favorite Pablo Neruda poems is Ode to Tomatoes .  There is hardly a month when I'm not thinking about tomatoes, and thi...

Yay tamarind! Before you skip over this, thinking tamarind is an exotic and strange thing that you have never heard of, don't know ...

It's berry time again! As we headed over the Santa Cruz Mountains to our go-to you-pick berry patch, we tried to remember when it was...

Well, it's back to blogging! After many months of wedding planning, celebrating, and then honeymooning, Bill and I spent our first we...

I've gotten a lot of mileage out of this recipe lately! It's one I adapted from this cookbook (the same cookbook I got the ideas...

pink strawflower The whole goal of the Send Something Good project was to connect with other bloggers you may not otherwise find. I have...

Twelve years ago, I traveled around the world for 9 months on a field study program called International Honors Program . It was an aweso...