Not every night is a lavish multi-course feast featuring exotic dishes. In fact, that rarely occurs here at the Bread & Beta kitchen. Usually, we get home after 7pm and there’s a mad scramble to get some semblance of dinner on the table. Do any of you find this to be the case as well? I don’t know how so many people (especially in...

Lately I have been more enamored with my sewing machine than with my stove. Or rather, I’ve been bitten by the sewing bug and have been spending most of my free time reading sewing and quilting blogs, magazines, books and other resources, browsing over the amazing selection of fabrics that exist at local shops and online, and thinking about my...

Writing about food is not easy. Even though there are thousands of food bloggers out there making it seem like it’s a dime-a-dozen kind of activity. Cooking food, as you know, is also not easy. It’s definitely not all rosewater and frosting here in the Bread & Beta kitchen. Dinner the other night was a perfect example of this. I’m...

 I hope you’ve been busy enjoying the summer: endlessly long evenings, hot summer nights, cool drinks, fresh produce. I surely have. We seem to eat quick, simple meals and linger on our deck enjoying the sounds of the evening: the city, firecrackers going off, kids playing, a cute raccoon family going out for the evening forage (This is not as...