My first two years of high school were in Arizona. Our football team was great — the best in the state, actually — and I dutifully wore my “Go Huskies!” ribbons and attended every home football game along with everyone else. I even went to the state championship game and rang a little cowbell with […]
We had been meaning to go to Reynolds Tavern for tea for quite a while now, and we finally made it when Toby’s mom came to visit. Now we can’t believe we waited so long. It is super cute inside, the tea is awesome (there are a ton of different kinds, and everyone can get […]
I don’t drink much wine. I like red wine, but after you’ve had red wine come out your nose (at a restaurant, no less), you tend to avoid it. And I don’t really care for most white wines. But I do like champagne and prosecco. Especially as part of a cocktail. A bellini is basically […]
Everything was going swimmingly on Saturday. It was windy and rainy and stormy outside, but Toby managed to get my car in the garage (since my Jeep’s hood was smashed by a falling sheet of ice after the blizzard in early 2010 and a tree branch went through the windshield during a crazy thunderstorm last […]
I hope everyone is staying safe and dry as Irene makes her way up the East Coast. We’re just sitting here watching CNN butcher the names of towns in North Carolina, and watching Baltimore TV talk about how terrible the weather is while showing a live shot of ducks floating in the calm Baltimore harbor. […]
Originally I was going to have a recipe for grilled chicken with peach barbecue sauce. Sounds great, right? It was one of Gwyneth Paltrow’s recipes in Bon Appetit a month or so ago. The first thing I made from that issue was sweet corn gelato (from the letters section, where people ask how to make […]
I really like the idea of yogurt parfaits, but it seems like the pre-made ones always have some kind of yucky yogurt and not enough fruit. So I thought I’d make my own. I only have plain, nonfat Greek yogurt in my fridge. And I simply am not a good enough person to eat that […]
I know you were probably wondering how the sweet tea fits in with the peach theme of the week. Well, you could make peach iced tea. But I have a better idea: Sweet tea rice with peaches, jalapeno and pecans. You cook the rice with sweet tea instead of water. And you can drink a […]
I’m not Southern. My dad is from Texas and my mom’s from West Virginia, but I was born in Northern California and grew up in Arizona — which is technically in the southern half of the U.S. but is not REALLY the South. The first time I remember hearing someone use the word “Yankee” when […]
Yesterday was Eat a Peach Day. I didn’t even realize that when I decided to make this ESS Peach Week. But I’ll go with it! I can’t remember if I’ve told y’all that we joined a CSA this year. CSA means community-supported agriculture — we give a farmer a certain amount of money before the […]