Thank you all for the well-wishes and encouragement yesterday! I appreciate it so much. My first day went well! I’ll update now and then on how everything is going.
So amidst career moves and first day jitters, yesterday, I also determined that I’m going to turn orange.
wintertime carrot pesto salad [walnut-marjoram pesto, carrot "ribbons"]
I [...]
I think I’m still feeding off inspiration from the wedding. All weekend, I had things that were old, things that were new, borrowed, or blue bouncing throughout my brain. The random ideas show no sign of ending.
One was part of the wedding:
The pin we tucked under the folds of Sara’s skirt: old as in [...]
I can clearly remember the first occasion on which I was introduced to carrot cake.
It was a family gathering in our old, ranch style home. I was six years old, wearing my favorite dress: a black, pink, and teal number with voluminously ruffled short sleeves and a full skirt, ideal for twirling. I sat next [...]
Last summer, a friend of mine hosted a spring roll making party. I seem to recall consuming more wine than focusing on rice paper wrapping, but somehow the skill stuck with me.
I later learned that the “spring” rolls we made were more appropriately titled “summer,” due to the fact that we didn’t fry them. [...]