Working on layer 1 of Sister's birthday cake.

Sister's 41st birthday, Hudson, Ohio, USA, January 2008.

Pizza Margherita and pizza with sage-walnut pesto and gorgonzola

Hudson, Ohio, USA, October 2008.

Macaron fail

Hudson, Ohio, USA, October 2009.

Galician garbanzo soup

Hudson, Ohio, USA, March 2009.

Because you have to do something with the eight million pounds of pistachios in your freezer, which you always have on hand in case you need to make dukkah. Which is often.

Cleveland, Ohio, USA, May 2007.

And ready to be tossed into the soup.

Italian wedding soup

Hudson, Ohio, USA, March 2008.

Green + White + Red + Blonde == You're an effin' style-tard and should have your eyelids locked open.

Roast chicken with walnut sauce

Hudson, Ohio, USA, April 2009.

So handy to have these in the freezer, ready to go when I am.

Italian wedding soup

Hudson, Ohio, USA, March 2008.

Eddie's office

French yule log

Hudson, Ohio, USA, December 2008.

Hudson, Ohio, USA, June 2006.

Ribollita

Hudson, Ohio, USA, November 2008.

Crispy chicken tacos with guacamole

Hudson, Ohio, USA, May 2010.

Broccoli pesto

Hudson, Ohio, USA, March 2010.

It even rhymes.

Sister's 41st birthday, Hudson, Ohio, USA, January 2008.

Crispy chicken tacos

Hudson, Ohio, USA, May 2010.

Rigatoni with zucchini and goat cheese

Hudson, Ohio, USA, July 2009.

Guest Bedroom

...this frosting is so sweet.

Caramel cake with caramelized butter frosting

Hudson, Ohio, USA, November 2008.

main closet in master bedroom

Waiting for more of that special birthday "cake"!

Hudson, Ohio, USA, April 2008.

And he's smart, too. This is his painting of the Sydney Opera House, which he made for me completely on his own, without even being asked. He was 3 1/2 when he drew this. I am so very very proud.

Appropriately, he wants to be an artist when he grows up!

In our library at our new home, Hudson, Ohio, USA, April 2006.

The pasta of the cattleman

Hudson, Ohio, USA, April 2009.

Caramel cake with caramelized butter frosting

Hudson, Ohio, USA, November 2008.

Caramel cake with caramelized butter frosting

Hudson, Ohio, USA, November 2008.

Pizza Margherita and pizza with sage-walnut pesto and gorgonzola

Hudson, Ohio, USA, October 2008.

He loves onions. Especially when they're being sauteed.

Mole poblano

Hudson, Ohio, USA, May 2008.

Show off pictures of your first home or the lovely place you call "home"

Just like braiding hair, only it's dough.

Tsoureki

Hudson, Ohio, USA, March 2008.

Tomato sauce base.

Tomato sauce di Piazza Sant'Eulalia

Hudson, Ohio, USA, February 2008.

Apple strudel

Hudson, Ohio, USA, May 2009.

From the breakfast bar, Cameron checks out paint colors.

At the end of Eastern Avenue, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England

When Chris comes to visit, he can happily stay in the cold storage closet... It's perfect for him.

Jet cocks her head in the cutest way imaginable when I ask her questions.

Hudson, Ohio, USA, September 2008.

Bagels

Hudson, Ohio, USA, May 2009.

Nephew's gift to Jet; he picked it out all by himself.

Hudson, Ohio, USA, December 2007.

Cameron's workspace/music studio

...I made some little pumpkin cakes.

Hudson, Ohio, USA, November 2006.

Layered chocolate fudge cake

Hudson, Ohio, USA, January 2010.

Chicken breasts stuffed with goat cheese, caramelized leeks and thyme

Hudson, Ohio, USA, May 2009.

Hudson, Ohio, USA, December 2007.

One Jet on the chair, one Jet on the Dell laptop and one-third Jet in the painting on the wall.

Hudson, Ohio, USA, April 2008.

Note all the artwork, by Jet and by Nephew and by a professional.

Hudson, Ohio, USA, January 2010.

Husband and Jet have a little stare-down.

Hudson, Ohio, USA, January 2008.

Desperately trying to remember its "safe word."

(Nephew took this one, too, of the greyhound statue in the foyer where my family likes to hang their coats when they visit.)

Hudson, Ohio, USA, November 2007.

Anadama bread

Hudson, Ohio, USA, May 2009.

Fregula Sarda with roasted zucchini, ricotta salata and olives

Hudson, Ohio, USA, April 2009.