Chocolate orange cakes

Chocolate, vanilla bean cakes with a Valencia orange peel, sour cream, cream cheese frosting.

And also, in fact, the first tray of decorating I've ever done!

Kitchen life continues

It's been just over one year since I decided to move permanently to California. I suppose I'm a bit late to report, but this has been a year of crowded farmers markets overflowing with California produce, biking to school on my blue cruiser, potted herbs on our little porch (though I also managed to maim two rounds before this one bloomed), much dining out, and, of course, a new kitchen. This kitchen, like those before it, is full of light.

Palo Alto, California

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Charlottesville, Virginia

I'm noticing now that it's actually been four years of radio silence and six years since I started writing in the first place. That actually means that this blog is something I've owned longer than many things in my life. For context, the baby on the purple birth announcement on my fridge in Charlottesville is now very much a little girl. 

I plan to be more diligent this year.