Monthly Archives: March 2014

Spiced Chocolate Cookies and Cape Weather

Spring arrives intermittently, it seems. One moment it’s all daffodils and salad, the next, snow warnings and pork chili and corn bread and Jon “borrowing” the scarf he gave me for Christmas because it’s a Boy Color. This is when … Continue reading

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Pisco Veuve Ambal cocktail, and a challenge

Here’s the thing: a week or two ago a very nice sounding PR person contacted me and asked me to come up with a cocktail featuring Veuve Ambal and Hella Bitters. This does not happen to me a whole lot. “Are … Continue reading

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Rhubarb Fool

There was rhubarb on Fresh Direct this week. Ruinously expensive, but still, rhubarb. I bought it. Because I am terribly extravagant.

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Banana Chocolate Espresso Muffins to cope with Daylight Savings

Daylight savings is always a blessing and a curse in my house.

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Snow, and Warm Bourbon and Spiced Apple

Although we are currently experiencing something of a lull in the weather, the snow, endless snow, great drifts of it blackening on the sidewalks, slicking the pavements, filling the cross-walks with sloppy black puddles, has been pulling on peoples’ spirits.

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