Last Friday night I went to Tria with my friend Georgia, to help her spend a gift certificate that her boyfriend had given her. We had a couple of glasses of amazing wine, shared a salad and panini and talked for several hours straight. It was quite lovely.
The salad was baby arugula, beets, [...]
I have 25 pages of my novella due for my fiction by Monday night at 11:59 pm and I currently have about two and a half pages written. And did I mention the insanely busy weekend in store? So it makes perfect sense that I decided to start a cooking project and make [...]
Walking through Reading Terminal Market this afternoon, I found myself drawn to a table covered in 2 pound bags of ginger, with a sign announcing that each bag was only $.99. I’ve been on something of a ginger kick lately, and so was drawn to these bags of ginger. Admittedly, some of the [...]
The first mistake I made was buying the bag of tiny dark chocolate chips. I typically do my best to stay away from such things, but I went into Nuts to You yesterday afternoon on an empty stomach and I found that my willpower wasn’t strong enough to resist the mini-chips.
The second was not [...]
I’ve been on a cabbage kick recently. It all started last week, when I promised to make dinner for some friends. Only my student loan refund hasn’t come in yet, and I’ve been scrapping the bottom of the financial barrel, a situation that necessitates frugal cooking. I settled up on teriyaki chicken [...]
The last 24 hours (at least all the waking ones) have been a whirlwind of engaging, interesting, enlivening social activities as well as lots of terrific food (the highlight was an Avocade Monte Cristo sandwich with homemade tomato jam). I’ve had a wonderful time celebrating a birthday, attending a baby shower and hanging with some [...]
I am about two months behind the curve with post, but somehow I just haven’t gotten around to baking Jim Lahey’s much-vaunted No-Knead Bread that appeared on the front page of the New York Times food section on November 8th, 2006. This amazing bread recipe/technique sent ripples through the foodie world, and you can [...]
Each year, as my mom and I shop for Christmas gifts for my dad, we carefully ration the gifts, giving him only half of the booty on December 25th. The reserved portion is wrapped in non-holiday paper and put out for his birthday a short eight days later. Most years I head back [...]
I woke up this morning to a lake of chicken fat a foot in diameter on my kitchen counter. It spread underneath the microwave and dribbled down the sides of the crockpot from which it had originated. Let this be a lesson to you. Never overfill a crockpot when you make chicken broth from the [...]
The next installment of Fork You is up. It’s just a short and sweet little Quick Fork, about how to make an easy cookie or cupcake frosting. The recipe is simple, just 2 cups of powdered sugar, 2 1/2 tablespoons of milk, 4 tablespoons of softened butter and a single teaspoon of vanilla. [...]
