by Sadira Stone | Oct 14, 2024 | Recipes
It’s National Dessert Day! I’m not much of a baker, but I like to offer a fruit-based dessert when I have friends over for dinner. This stone fruit gratin is my riff on a recipe from a French cooking magazine. Easy-peasy, rich fruit flavor, and you can adjust...
by Sadira Stone | Jan 25, 2022 | Recipes
Writing fiction is a profession that brings me great joy but very little exercise. Combine that with pandemic isolation, Hubs’ illness and surgery, moving from WA to NV (so homesick!), and stress eating to soothe same, and it’s no big surprise my most recent physical...
by Sadira Stone | Apr 5, 2021 | Recipes, Writing
Thanks to our awesome co-hosts for the April 7 posting of the IWSG! PK Hrezo, Pat Garcia, SE White, Lisa Buie Collard, and Diane Burton! The Insecure Writers Support Group is a wonderful gathering place for writers of all stripes. Here, you’ll...
by Sadira Stone | Sep 11, 2020 | Recipes
183 days, y’all! We’ve been living on pandemic lockdown for half a year, as of today. Doesn’t that land in your gut like a lead donut?! I hope you’re enjoying a golden, smoke-free September. Here in WA, the skies are golden instead of the...
by Sadira Stone | Jun 10, 2020 | Recipes
Quick, easy, cheap, delish–and a good way to use up leftover protein and veg! Okay, a professional food blogger I ain’t, but I do love to cook. However, social distancing and an abundance of caution mean I’ve been cooking every day for the...
by Sadira Stone | Feb 18, 2020 | News, Recipes, Writing
A little nourishment for belly and brain before I begin my next project. Note to self: next time, save some parsley to sprinkle before photographing. Tah-dahhh! On Sunday, I submitted my fourth romance manuscript to my wonderful editor. Such a marvelous feeling, and a...