These gorgeous pastries were gifted to me by a photographer friend after he shot the wedding of the company’s owners. The crunchy, heart-shaped cinnamon sugar cookies are shipped to Austin from Mexico and would make a lovely holiday or hostess gift.

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This post, like many that I will share in the next several months, belongs in the “better late than never” category. What better than a lovely zucchini dessert recipe to bring my blog out of hibernation?

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Last night Rami and I celebrated the end of August with this baked chicken dish. It comes together in less than an hour, and its ingredients and savory sweet flavors foreshadow the goodness of fall.

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Today is not going very well. I’m a little emotionally hungover from Sunday’s (very successful) pie fundraiser, and I forgot to eat breakfast for the umpteenth day in a row this morning. I also just saw that Jada and Will

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My sister Beth and I found this old-fashioned pie recipe in my Grandma’s collection of cookbooks. Our curiousity was piqued in part by the recipe’s unusual name, in part by its intriguing combination of flavors: chocolate, ginger, vanilla creme, egg whites. We were also in the mood for pie. (Who isn’t these days?)

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