It’s been a year since I’ve posted a Daring Baker challenge, and I’m hanging my head over it. Actually, I’ve just crawled out from under the rock where I’ve been hiding. Last March, the delicious Citrus Tian Dessert made with blood oranges and California Cuties marked the start of an extended absence from the [...]
March 2011
It’s Spring, so that means it’s officially time for asparagus even though it seems there is rarely a time that it isn’t available at the grocery store. It’s probably one of our favorite vegetables, so often in the “green & healthy” rotation around here for one meal or another if the price isn’t too crazy. [...]
I’ve been trying to write something here for days now. I approach the task with the best intentions but know that it’s really only my conscience goading me. No words come. I scrounge for a memory worth sharing, then wonder if it’s one I’ve already written about and catch myself wanting to waste time sorting [...]
My sister is coming from Virginia with her oldest daughter in a couple of days. They used to be California types like us, but life’s necessities took her family to the East Coast for a few years before they were able to return to the Golden State, and then, opportunities not available here saw them [...]
It’s funny how things work. I was finally able to go to the nursery this past Sunday to choose plants for the patio project I’ve been working on for the past few weeks, and was so pooped lifting those 5-gallon containers I decided to put off planting them until the next day. Bear in mind [...]
At some point this month, Sass & Veracity will be four years old, and in blog years, that’s an accomplishment of sorts — one that could be classified as seat time, but that’s a matter I’ll continue to work on. I can’t remember the first time I wrote here, but know it was near mid-March, [...]
