A bottle of limoncello contains some contrasts. It looks like summer in a glass, but due to the ripening schedule of our lemon trees, we make it in late fall and winter. A limoncello recipe can take over a month to complete (and years to...
2023 UPDATE: Pine nut harvesting can have a severe environmental impact. So, in this recipe, we replaced the original pine nuts with crushed pecans. Pecans are more sustainable and, bonus, they're cheaper. Nasturtiums are whimsically scattered across the sunny half of my new garden. (Details on...
What's everyone up to this Memorial Day weekend? Right now we're prepping for our vertical gardening demo in LA (happening on Saturday — come! Here are the details) followed by QT with our friends and enjoying our SoCal surroundings. On that note, we'd like to...
Grapefruit season’s winding down, and pepper season’s kicking up! And so our thoughts turn to where these two ingredients intersect best: inside the spicy paloma cocktail. Also, let us not forget that Cinco de Mayo is next week. (Observed on a limited scale in Mexico, this adopted “holiday”...
In the cycle of challenge/triumph/better-luck-next-time that is gardening, planting seeds has always thrown us for a loop. How can one humble kernel contain so many expectations? And questions. When to plant? How deep? How far apart? In the almost eight years that we've lived in...
My co-Hort Ryan and I are feeling rosy right now as we get ready for our (get ready for this:) twelfth Valentine’s Day together this weekend. Back in 2004 we did the prix fixe thing with steak frites at Jules, followed by wandering in and...
Wondering what to give the plant lover in your life? Well, we have some ideas. In fact, we have an ideabook full of ideas. This season we teamed up with home design community/rabbit hole of visual delights Houzz to curate an ideabook for the holidays. Inside...
We’re very much into the whole “buy experiences rather than things” thing. So when Ryan suggested we celebrate my birthday by going to Portland, I said, “Put a bird on it!” and by “bird” I mean me, and by “it” I mean the City of...
Guava season has officially begun! Although none of the egg-shaped green fruits have conked us on the head yet (a sign of good luck anyway), our Acca sellowiana tree has been dropping goodies left and right since late July. In previous years, this level of...
The 1990s and early 2000s were not kind to the carnation. Maybe it’s all the unholy dye jobs, or their association with homecoming boutonnieres, or their street-corner ubiquity that turned the pedigreed Dianthus caryophyllus into a pop culture punchline. The plant was famously maligned on Sex...