carrot kick.

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"]

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something old, something new…

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 [...]

carroty cake.

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 [...]

summer rolls.

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. [...]