White Beans with Tomatoes, Greens and Pesto

Warning: slight grumpiness ahead.
I have pulled the wool leggings, fleece wraps and long, thick scarves out of the boiler closet and am planning on replacing them with my frilly summer whites this weekend.  This isn’t the kind of September I’m used to.  Last September in New Mexico, I’m sure it was still 80 F and [...]

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Our Kind of Feast: citrus vinaigrette, sundried tomato risotto, chai creme brulee

I’ll be honest: We hadn’t exactly intended to get married. We were content to live together, doing our hiking/traveling/cooking thing until we were old and gray. But then when we had the offer to move to England, the combined bureaucracies of two of the world’s most powerful countries combined to convince us otherwise. [...]

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