Monthly Archives: September 2018

It’s Autumn! Hooray!! Today is Hobbit Day! It’s Bilbo’s birthday! It’s Frodo’s birthday! Hooray for Hobbit Day! I have been meaning to make a seed cake in honor of Bilbo’s birthday for several years, and every year I have not … Continue reading →

Last weekend, quite unexpectedly, became a peach canning weekend. Our sweet neighbor Emily has peach trees in her back yard and they are starting to drop their ripe fruit. They are dropping far more fruit than she can use. So, … Continue reading →

Today’s recipe finds its origins in my (actually, Raven’s) cookbook Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan. I love this cookbook, by the way. The recipes are sensible, tasty, and not too fiddly. Raven got this cookbook and I got the … Continue reading →