Lemons + Anchovies

White Bean Dip

We are left with only a few days before we ring in the new year.  Was it a good year for you or is it one better left behind?  Good or bad, what's great about opening up that first page of the calendar is that it is a marker for new beginnings.  On the health/lifestyle front--for most of ... Read More

Cranberry-Cinnamon Scones

I have been trying not to look at the calendar too much.  When I do, it sticks its tongue out at me for having fallen behind so much.  I have two days to cross things off my holiday list--there's still hope!  My husband and I are celebrating Christmas a bit differently this year so time is even more ... Read More

The Glorious Pasta of Italy: A Book Review

Many of you might already know how much I love to eat pasta.  I can eat it each day of the week and not tire of it.  Were I to be asked what my last meal would be, pasta would most certainly be in the equation. So when the good people of Cooks & Books & Recipes gave me the opportunity to ... Read More

Chocolate-Raspberry (Birthday) Cake

  I will let you in on a little secret. Since waxing poetic two posts ago about the merits of growing up (euphemism for getting old?), my attitude has encroached on negative territory a few times.  I still stand behind all I said two weeks ago.  My angst about approaching this milestone ... Read More

Roasted Tomato Soup

  There was a time when I turned my nose up at tomato soup.  To me it was no more than watered down tomato sauce disguised as soup--not the least bit appealing. I felt the same about tomato juice. V8? I'll pass.  I don't recall when the turning point was, when I decided that a good bowl of ... Read More

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