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    Q & A With Michelle at Cleveland Foodie

    It’s crazy wonderful how much my life has been enhanced by the people I have met through the blogging community, both near and far. Michelle Venorsky, from the popular Cleveland Foodie blog is a glowing local example. Smart, curious, honest and wildly passionate about food and cooking – we were destined to one day meet. [...]

    Black Tea Prune and Walnut Bread

    This gently sweetened, dense and moist quick bread was a perfect vehicle for the cultured butter I made last week. Inspired by a recipe for Date and Walnut Bread found in Patricia Well’s book Vegetable Harvest, I used what was in my cupboard swapping  plump prunes for  the dates. Giving the prunes a  pre-soak in [...]

    Procrastination in Layers of Cream

    Snowville Creamery whipping cream This is one of those days in the life of a freelancer where I could sure use a deadline. I need to: Unpack the suitcase which is still sitting open and messy since returning from Nashville last Sunday. My gorgeous and gracious friend Claudia of cook eat FRET asked me to [...]

    Rolling in Dough

    Semolina dough crust with chili, garlic and rapini and percorino Toscano The sun came streaming in through the patio this morning which brought to attention to the fine powdery layer of flour haze that has settled on everything including the screen on my laptop. My little workhorse of a kitchen has been functioning primarily as [...]