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Re: Behind the Kitchen Door: Melissa Clark's Family Kitchen

A wonderfully well thought-out kitchen, and a charming narration for the video! Making the island mark the cooking/pantry divide in your genius is a very sensible touch. I envy you your Wolf range and hood.

posted: 4:17 pm on March 10th

Re: Win Abby Dodge's Must-Have Baking Tools

Abby Dodge is my baking hero. What a great article on her kitchen! It looks like it would fun to cook in.

posted: 12:25 am on November 2nd

Re: Win Maria Helm Sinskey's Must-Have Wine Tools

This was a great article. Maria Helm Sinskey's kitchen looks absolutely wonderful to cook in! I covet the English baker's table to a degree I should be ashamed to admit.

The wine lover's kit looks very tempting.

posted: 4:35 pm on July 28th

Re: Flower Power

I've lately added dried lavender to a mixture of herbes de Provence, especially for use with chicken on the grill.

I like a touch of it in desserts involving goat cheese and honey on or in pastry. There are also good recipes around (Laura Calder has one) for shortbread or sugar cookies flavoured with lavender. I've also seen butter cake recipes pairing blueberries and lavender (wild blueberries (huckleberries?), please!), but I haven't tried those yet. I've been meaning to try my hand at some lavender-honey ice cream.

posted: 3:31 pm on July 15th