One of the highlights of my summer adventures was a trip to Wisconsin. I was getting to see two friends I hadn’t seen in years, which was wonderful. But almost as good was the news that we were going… Read the rest of this post

I don’t feel like I have much of a relationship with Julia Child.  I am too young to have seen most of her shows, and I’ve not even cracked the cover of “The Art of French Cooking”, though my… Read the rest of this post

My trip to Israel was incredible, filled with wonderful people and thrilling experiences.  I climbed mountains, crawled through tunnels, floated in the Dead Sea, sang, laughed, and cried.  Food wasn’t really a central focus, ususally eaten in cafeterias or hotel… Read the rest of this post

Aww, sad – the last edition of our gourmet Let Us Eat Bread challenge!  I wanted to save this one for last – I loved both it’s elegant shape and unusual combination of pumpkin and orange.

Like the buttermilk… Read the rest of this post

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I call them thumbprints, the boy calls them jelly tops, Gourmet called them Strawberry Tarts. But there is one universal name:

YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

These wonderful tiny shortbread-like cookies with jelly filling are a bite of warm weather in… Read the rest of this post

The holidays are a season of sweets, for me, and nothing encapsulates the feeling of the season better than stepping inside from a cold day to the smell of warm baking cookies.

So when the combination of Gourmet Magazine’s… Read the rest of this post

Thanks for visiting my new blog!  This is the temporary home of The Barefoot Kitchen, which will be relocating to a hosted source once it’s up and running.  So if you decide you want to bookmark me (and I’d love… Read the rest of this post

I’ve been on a real vampire kick recently. First it was the Twillight series (Oh, Edward…) then a Buffy the Vampire Slayer marathon (Oh, Angel…), and now the TrueBlood series and Sookie Stackhouse… Read the rest of this post