Roving Lemon's Big Adventure

The RL Christmas tree--a gift from SP On Friday night, worn out from a week of frantic prep (hampered by houseguests and leftover exhaust...

Holiday fail!

One night's tapas output--see below for a list of the week's experiments I spent last week in Madrid for work, at my organizatio...

This is what caving in to the holiday-industrial complex looks like. I’ve never had much use for Valentine’s Day; the whole idea of mandat...

Late last Friday night I made a large chocolate sheet cake for a graduation party we were hosting for DP’s students on Saturday afternoon. I...

Since I already had one spectacular failure in my one and only attempt to make jam in a slow cooker , it seems only fitting that its compani...

Despite the fact that I move a lot, I don’t really like being in transition. I know there are people who thrive on chaos but, despite all in...

Well, I really blew it on this month’s Cookbook Challenge : I didn’t even manage to make one recipe from the selected cookbook. I spent plen...

* Last week, some new friends of ours invited Miss B and me to a “Taste of” event being hosted by a neighboring city. We enthusiastically ...

We had dinner guests last night--my brother-in-law D. and his brood, Miss I., Miss R., and Mr. C. D. is an excellent cook, so I always want ...

Just in case you’re thinking it’s all sunshine and flowers and effortless production and consumption of deliciousness 24/7 here at Casa Rovi...

When I started getting seriously interested in cooking, ten years ago or more, I remember my early encounters with the “authoritarian” style...

I made jam in the slow cooker. I got about two pounds of strawberries on sale for five bucks, and bought a bunch of rhubarb (another five bu...