Mother’s Day afternoon was spent just how I wanted it: out at a gorgeous farm, with good food, family and friends. Pleasantview Farm is twenty miles outside of Columbus, but feels a world away. The farm is quiet with vast expanses of meadow and sky. A working organic dairy farm, it is home to a… Read More Mother’s Day at Pleasantview Farm | Asparagus with Shallots
At night on the streets of Brussels, under bare bulb illuminated striped awnings, teeny cafe tables perilously balance candles, seafood platters, buckets of moules, mounds of frites and encourage smiling diners to stay a little later, have one more Kriek, share one more story. The next day that very same street is closed up tight:… Read More Delivery
I picked this up in Brussels. You can get yours here from the good folks at le Chocoholique.
I’ll admit to a slight amount of jet lag. By slight I mean passing out after dinner and waking up at four the next morning. So I haven’t really blogged dinner in as timely a manner as I’d like; but there you go. This lovely dish was inspired by a restaurant we happened upon in… Read More Ivory Coast via Brussels | Salmon with Saffron Tumeric Cream
It’s early Spring, and there is an abundance of all sorts of young herbs, lettuces, and edible flowers. They are tender, beautiful and delicious. This is clearly the beginning of salad season. Just pick, tear, and drizzle with the best possible olive oil. Tonight I used dill, mint, picked thyme, parsley, baby lettuces and, as… Read More Backyard Foraging | Violet Salad with Goat Cheese in Phyllo
It’s late April here in Ohio and in my backyard, I have a crab apple tree* in near-full bloom. In my front yard, I have a magnolia tree in near-full bloom. I have grape hyacinths popping up under the forsythia. Using my prep bowls, I nestled sprigs of crab apple and hyacinth for personal arrangements… Read More Persephone Entertains | Quick Flower Arrangements
Playing in the backyard with Cherub this afternoon, I couldn’t help but admire the rhubarb plant that’s seriously taken off. I’ve watched it daily from my kitchen window, but from that vantage point, I had no idea just how much was ready for harvesting. Cherub and I picked four large stalks (for a total of… Read More Persephone’s Drinks Cabinet | The Rhubarb Middleton
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