Look at that! Let's first nibble on a yogurt-fruit salad breakfast. Albion Cooks did just that over the holiday weekend, which led to a rare, unhurried breakfast. It looks appealing, healthy, and tasty, "definitely worth the effort", supremed oranges be damned. Next, dig into a big ole box of Bing cherries via The Foodie Digest. Share with co-workers, as they do in Foodie Digest's kitchen (so sweet!), or sit on the couch and enjoy......

Our frequent fantasies and consumption of pumpkin bread (with or without cream cheese frosting; raisins are also optional) shows we like to explore the myriad ways of preparing and eating this vegetable. We know pumpkin eats are not necessarily for everyone, of course. Yet we are still thrilled when conversions occur. Gluten-Free By the Bay makes pumpkin muffins which edged GFBTB into this territory: "from an unbashed pumpkin hater to an ambivalent, tentative pumpkin eater." Baby steps can be the way to change, GFBTB, baby steps. ...

Last Monday, after we posted our blog round-up, we, along with what we can only assume was all of America, went outside and tried to start a fire. It was Memorial Day, which means the start of summer, which means the start of bar-be-cu'ing season. (What is the correct conjugation of "Bar-be-cue" anyways? Does it exist? Or are there multiple versions, like its spelling?) In any event, we tried to grill. It did not......

In the excellent William Gibson novel Pattern Recognition, the main character has a panic attack every time she is confronted with the image of Bibendum, the Michelin Man. we don't really blame her, the early pics of him were pretty, well, not pretty. In that vein, we can only imagine the plotzing that's going on in some of the Bay Area's finest kitchens following the announcement that the revered Michelin Guide has chosen to focus......