the baroness's Profile

I haven't YET purchased an Enclume rack, but I've used them extensively in the Sur La Table kitchens here in Washington. They also construct many of the store displays for SLT. Awesome sturdy product. That whisk rack is hilarious!

cats. not cat's.

I work with a Seattle-based kitchen retailer and I was lucky enough to score a pretty nice "professional" discount on a Ruby 300. LOVE IT. Making all my scone doughs and biscuits and soups and hummus and EVERYTHING in it. And it's pretty. So pretty. I'd do it again.

Our wedding was pretty small -- so small that we had to be super-choosy about who we invited, and we made a decision to not invite children outside of our nieces who were in the wedding. Well, my uncle ignored that, and RSVP'd as "one adult, three boys", and brought his three sons, and a black lab puppy(!) along. At first, I was pretty horrified about the puppy, but thankfully our venue was pet friendly (we also had a frenchie as our ring bearer, so yeah, WE had a dog there, too). Another couple brought along along their baby -- I mean what gives?

At the end of it all, the memories I have of that day are fantastic: all my friends, those beautiful children all playing bocce together in the sun, dogs everywhere. If I had enforced our policies, our day would have been a little less magic. And that's why I should probably take a xanax before every party I host.

Thanks so much for this -- I've been looking at electrical wire to re-cover some paper cane chairs that were destroyed by one of our dearly departed felines. Wire is really expensive -- this is a much more realistic option.

My friend Sebastian of Seattle Coffee Works taught me that upside down trick and my head just about exploded. 40 seconds for an amazing cup w/o an espresso machine is pretty great.

Aww... RIP Ms Cunningham. I was just using The Fannie Farmer Baking Book a few days ago, and was marvelling at how her recipes are really what I used to learn to bake growing up. My mom used her FF Cookbook for EVERYTHING. I remember staying home alone as a 12 year old kid for the first time and making the recipe for Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies from the book and surprising mom and dad when they got home! Marion Cunningham will always live on in my kitchen!

I hate when things I love become "trends". That being said, I do love foxes -- but I'm tired of people liking things just because the rest of the world does (mustaches -- I'm looking at YOU).