I’m forever messing up pears. I just can’t get a handle on them. So many different varieties and consistencies. I like them raw and I liked them cooked but it’s going to be awhile before I figure out how to cook them properly. Hell, I can’t seem to buy the right ones to eat just like that.

That said, this looks tasty. I like the idea of the vanilla.

Long live Smitten Kitchen.

Smitten Kitchen does zucchini bread.

Fresh direct from the Goddess at Smitten Kitchen: Apple Pie cookies.

Dag, where have you been my whole life?

Yeah, I know it’s only Tuesday but dig these apple pancakes over at Smitten Kitchen.

Why not? I’d try it. Thank you, Smitten Kitchen.

Smitten Kitchen rules: simplicity wins again.

I’m a have to try this one.

Smitten Kitchen offers up another sure shot: tomato salad withe crushed croutons.

Sure, why the hell not?

Because Smitten Kitchen’s got it going on.

Smitten Kitchen, again and again.

Smitten Kitchen gives us sweet cherry pie.

Yes, please.

The Goddess at Smitten Kitchen does skirt steak.

Ah, for a small deck with a grill…sigh.

Pass the peas pasta (like they used to say).

Smitten Kitchen wins, and so do we.

Yes, please.

Smitten Kitchen wins again.

Simplicity Rules. Oh, hell yes it does. Smitten Kitchen wins again (and so do we).

Smitten Kitchen crushes purple potatoes and I feel hungry.

Smitten Kitchen, I love you.

All praise due to the goddess of Smitten Kitchen for giving us Southwestern pulled brisket.

Smitten Kitchen does strawberry rhubarb crumble.

I’m so down.

Since Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen is all that and then some why don’t we stick around.

Check this one out–pickled sugar snap peas…

Simply pleasures are the best.

Like tomato sauce with butter and onion, adapted by the incredible food blog Smiten Kitchen from the Goddess Marcella Hazan.