A guide to making life a little more fabulous

When I was little, I didn’t like spaghetti sauce.

Because it’s cherry blossom time in DC, because I had been wanting to try this for a while, because I opened a jar of cherry pie filling for Belgian waffles on Sunday and because cherry pie is amazing… I made mini pies the other day.

You may have seen Gourmet’s newest special edition magazine, Gourmet Italian Kitchen.

About a year and a half ago, I met and interviewed a really amazing person: Gunnery Sgt.

Ever since I read “The Secret Life of Bees,” I’ve been obsessed with biscuits and honey.

The Cherry Blossom Festival ended Sunday, and tiny pink petals are floating all over DC — but some of the trees are still blooming.

Toby really likes to have lots of food for breakfast or brunch, whereas I usually can only eat about a serving of cereal or two pancakes before I’m full.

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while; I was out of town.

If you read my post about the parties last week at our house, I’m sure you were wondering what I made for dessert.

As you might imagine, I was all about Bon Appetit’s May “Italy” issue.

Between reading “Brideshead Revisited” (which is lovely, by the way) and watching (kinda) the royal wedding… I have been craving scones for quite a while.

Tomorrow, (more than) a boatload of midshipmen will graduate from the Naval Academy and sail off into the sunset… or at least into the Navy and Marine Corps.

Anyone who has ever met me — and probably many who haven’t — know that I was not a fan of Jacksonville, N.

Well, the diet has been going pretty well, although the exercise portion has been a challenge.

I was thinking about making a three-layer cake for the Fourth of July — one layer red, one layer white and one layer blue.

So, those cupcakes were really cute, but I gave them all away at work.