Hi, I'm the Not Martha plumber. If you can see this post, it means this site has successfully transferred over to it's new home. Yay!

It's been awfully hot here and we're all moving a bit slow including, it seems, my site. Unexplainable technical difficulties have been plaguing me since last week so I'm in the midst of packing it all up and moving it to a new home. The site might blip away for a while, but don't worry, I'll return.

In the mean time I've been watching happily as my newly planted lavender blooms enough to let me cut a little bit this year. But only at night when it's cooled down a bit. Man.

onion goat cheese tart and perfectly puffy popovers at Shelterrific

Hydrox are coming back, perhaps temporarily, at Chow

jim lahey’s potato pizza and 10 paths to painless pizza-making at Smitten Kitchen

I'd like to bake eggy-stink-free biscotti, but how? at Ask Metafilter

Bicicletta, a refreshing looking summer cocktail, at Hedonia

Simple, easy and elegant recipes that are always crowd pleasers: What are yours? at Ask Metafilter

Recipe: Cold Peanut Sesame Noodles at The Kitchen

Citrus Basil Cocktail at the Seattle PI

Sloe Gin Is Back, but Hold the Fizz and recipe for a Ramos Gin Fizz at the NY Times

Note to self: go try the Bitter End cocktail at Artemis

Homemade Ice Cream Drumsticks at Baking Bites

thing I want: ice princess, straw and ice mold from Fred & Friends

Safer than teflon, lighter than cast iron, it's Ceramcor to the rescue, at Chow.

best supermarket cabernet picks, at The Kitchen