Sprout & Pea

As some­one who loves to cook, some­times the best dis­trac­tion from a bad day is brain­storm­ing a meal and exper­i­ment­ing in the kitchen. So, this morn­ing, a not-​​so-​​hot feel­ing me started brows­ing eggs on foodgawker, quickly to come across an image of scram­bled eggs and aspara­gus. The first thing that came to mind to com­bine with this was tar­ragon. Read more:

For my last day at my old job my amaz­ing intern Eli gave me one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen — a mini le creuset! It even matches the color of my large one. I had been think­ing of pur­chas­ing some ramekins to make some baked eggs in, but this spe­cial lit­tle gift was oing to work even bet­ter. My down­time for cook­ing has been a bit lim­ited recently with friends in town and start­ing a new job and lots of other excit­ing events and trips hap­pen­ing, but each day this adorable mini le creuset has been start­ing me in the face, wait­ing for me to cook with it. Finally, I had an evening to myself and so I stopped at the mar­ket on my way home from work, got all of the ingre­di­ents that I had been sali­vat­ing over for the past month and got to work. Read more:

Walk­ing through the farmer’s mar­ket last week­end, I came across some gor­geous golden beets. I didn’t know what I was going to do with them, but they were call­ing me towards them so I splurged and spent my pretty penny on them.

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