Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. How can you go wrong with coffee, scones, muffins, oatmeal, bacon …..? Trying to redeem myself for serving up more than my fair share of PopTarts, I have been making oatmeal with an assortment of fresh berries for my son each morning. The photo above is from […]
Spring cleaning is therapeutic, and yet, at the same time, a burden. The obsessive-compulsive in me happily makes a list of the tasks, and crosses them off, s l o w l y. Ah, the excitement of cleaning baseboards and shutters! More fun is bottle reduction, where I try to pare down my routine to […]
It is s-n-o-w-i-n-g outside again, but I’m ignoring it – I refuse to reward bad behavior with attention! Instead, let’s talk about my newest love: pots de creme. Officially, the obsession started when I had one for dessert at 39 Rue de Jean in Charleston (you should go if/when you’re there). When we got home, […]
Today’s bakery is a place I’ve never been, but I know I would love it. It’s Foster’s Market, with locations in Durham and Chapel Hill, NC. Someday, I’m going to go (to either location), and sit down for a cup of coffee and a nice slab of NY Style Crumbcake with lots of crumbs And […]
I’ve been distracted from my Flickr-ing of late. Perhaps it’s because the landscape is so bleak that I’m struggling to find inspiration. Here are the five: baguettes my bakery weakness, exposed 1 year on flickr today! love the mug Babies and these boots yellow bird detail I totally want a cute Bugheart purse spring is […]
