Do you ever have a week, or a weekend, where you just cannot cook? It’s not so much that you don’t have the drive — we all get tired sometimes, and takeout is so very tempting — as much as, no matter what you do you get it wrong?
I had one of those weekends.
The thng [...]
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March 10, 2009
An Explaination and a Promise
It’s kind of a big promise, too. But let’s start with the explaination:
On Friday, I had designs to write an interesting, and potentially long, blog post about what I cooked last week and what I ended up making to satisfy my food dilemma and what I did with my spinach (the answer: lots and lots [...]
March 2, 2009
It’s Snowing, I’m Working, and Hungry
I guess it’s a little inaccurate to say it’s still snowing, but that’s what it looked like earlier this morning and there’s about half a foot of soft, powdery snow on the ground. K is not at work — he’s been out of town at a family reunion and his flight got pushed back until [...]
February 16, 2009
A Turnip Tale
To be more accurate, perhaps, should I say “A Turnip Tale.. in the making”? Because, you see, I haven’t cooked these turnips yet. No, they’re still sitting in my fridge, in their little green-tinted Whole Foods bag.
I had a lovely “date” for Valentine’s Day this year, a good friend of mine who had recently broken [...]
December 24, 2008
Can I Interest You in Chanukkah?
Did you know it’s Chanukkah? I mean, I know it’s Christmas Eve and everything (hey, that’s also my birthday. Oh yeah. I’m old(er) today), but it just so happens that for the past three days, and for five more, Jews around the country and the world will be remembering that, back in the day, the [...]
December 22, 2008
Squee!! Look What I got!
Do you see that? It is an 11-cup Cuisinart Deluxe Food Processor. It also goes by the name of “My Chanukkah Present.”
Seriously, guys, I’m freakin’ out!
This opens up a whole new world to me. Pesto. Hummus. Baba Ganoush. SHREDDED VEGETABLES IN MERE SECONDS.
Up first: latkes. I tested this baby out at my friend’s [...]
December 8, 2008
TIME: Out of Step, Out of Touch
I got an email this morning. “This morning” is a misnomer, actually: it showed up in my inbox about 10 minutes ago. “TIME Picks the Best Food Trends of 2008″ it happily proclaimed, and then shot me over to time.com to take a look at their brilliant insight. And by “brilliant” I mean bass-ackwards.
To give [...]
November 3, 2008
EatCosta Rica!
Oh my, doesn’t that look delicious? I got that photo from Flickr, of one young woman’s meal in La Fortuna, Costa Rica. I am leaving on Friday morning (eaaaaarly morning) for Costa Rica for a vacation with my best friend, whose birthday we are also celebrating. We’re going to Mal Pais and Tamarindo, with a [...]
October 20, 2008
Onion Soup for the Chilly Soul
Hey, there! If you’re in DC right now, you’ve probably noticed: It got cold! Kinda fast! A little without warning! It’s about time! Wow, that’s a lot of exclaimation marks!
This weekend we finally jumped head-first into the autumn pool, and with the sudden drop in temperature, at least for me, always comes a deep-seated craving [...]
October 15, 2008
Meet Your Meat
So back in February, on this blog, I wrote a post called Veggie Tales, making the proclaimation that I was going to stop buying supermarket meat and switch to an entirely local-based meat consumption. It’s been 10 days shy of 8 months now and….
I’ve done it.
I can’t tell you how pleased I am to report [...]
