these days

I made this Strawberry cake from Saveur magazine. It only got 3 stars, but several blogs claimed it was really good. Let me say...it ended up in the trash. E said it was the worst thing I've made and I had to agree. I would give it 1 star.

So I made a lemon cake to make up for it.

chocolate coffee muffins

Received this clip/coffee spoon for my bday last year and I love it!

making strawberry jam today

this week

 I'm missing

In my kitchen this week

(links to recipes in green)

We ate so much last week in SF that I decided this week we would eat a little healthier. I know minus the apple fritters, but they had real apples in them!

lemon dressing (recipe link is below)

apples for apple fritters

spring salad...barley, asparagus, peas and arugula from Heidi Swanson (except she used bulgar)

fried rice from DALS (it was a little bland so we threw some furikake on it)

fennel, zucchini, yellow beet, & arugula salad ( i used leftover dressing from the spring salad above)

Is it over already?!

Today is the last day of spring break. I'm thankful that A and I recovered from the flu before then. Our friends were here from DC (visiting their family) for their spring break the week before ours. We were able to squeeze in some time together. Miss them already!

For our spring break we headed up to SF to visit my sister.

we went for a little hike

waffles at blue bottle.

their wings were so good!

Checked out some bakeries Craftsman & Wolves and B Patisserie

white chocolate sesame coffee cake

B Patisserieis was a little pricey, but good. If you go try the kouign amann. Great with a cup of coffee.