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My 2026 women’s gift guide is here! All my favorite things in one place that I love so much. Things I’m buying others as well as items on my own list. These are…

My under $25 gift guide is full of everything I love the most! Quick and easy gifts for stockings, friends and family, work parties, favorite things parties and…

1. For the first time ever I am LOVING it getting dark at 5pm. I don’t know why – but I want to get in cozy sweats, sit by the fire and cuddle up. It’s so relax…

I was recently gifted an overload of strawberries: I bought four baskets from a vendor at the market, whose booth I shop at often, and he threw in two extra bas…

One of the first “recipes” on this blog was No-Recipe Cherry Jam, posted in 2005, which wasn’t quite a recipe. Nevertheless, a lot of people successfully used t…

This recipe, from The Great Book of Chocolate, is one of my favorite recipes in the book. It’s a deep-dark chocolate spread that’s just as welcome on the breakf…

This may or may not happen to you, but sometimes when I’m a guest in someone’s home, where everyone pitches in to make dinner, all eyes (or just the host’s eyes…

There are two things I need to tell you about these cookies. One is that they’re crazy-good. And the other is that they’re huge. The recipe makes just five cook…

One of the first lessons I learned, right after I moved to Paris, was to never, ever be on time for a dinner party. When i got my first invitation to a dinner p…

Of all the pastries in France, one of my favorites is the financier. Enriched with nuts, and moistened with butter, every bakery in France offers their own vers…