Well, I held out as long as I could against the march of food blog posts toward complete Pumpkin Spice saturation. By my calculations, we are on a trajectory to arrive at "Peak Pumpkin Spice" sometime shortly before Thanksgiving. I too feel the pull of fall, but I've been reluctant to hop on the pumpkin dessert bandwagon. I don't feel like summer is finished with us just yet. Of course, that might have something to do with the fact that I live in Southern Arizona and it is still in the mid ...
Aren't summer colds the worst? I'm not entirely sure if it is that they're objectively more severe than the winter variety or it is just the injustice of being stuck inside during warm weather. They do seem to be more contagious than they are in the winter. I often can escape during the winter when someone else around me gets sick, but we are guaranteed a house full a sick people during the summer once one person contracts it.
This year's version comes packed with a scratchy sore throat that ...
One of the hallmarks of home cooking is a resistance to cutting corners, which really resonates with me. If I am going through the trouble to make something, I want to make the best possible rendition of it. That applies to an even greater extent if I haul out my ice cream maker.
If you've never had a mint ice cream made with real mint before, you've missed out. I can't even necessarily describe it as the same thing -- it's like the difference between real grapes and artificial grape ...
