Follies, Foibles and Failures

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 [...]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day — Give Me A Fry-Up!

There once was a girl from DC
Whose hunger just wouldn’t recede
As her stomach growled
She finally howled,
“A fry-up is just what I need!”
So dreaming of sasuage and bacon
She looked for a pub that would make ‘em
And just down the road
Was her own pot of gold
Ri Ra, where they wouldn’t just fake ‘em!
Seriously, though, I’m starving and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bourdain Is Coming…

Bourdain is coming! Bourdain is coming!
Actually, to be specific, Bourdain already came, saw, and was molested by Jose Andres. Or, at least, that’s what the commercials currently being shown on the Travel Channel imply. (A key moment? Andres pushing Bourdain’s head, pimp-style, into a carton of peaches at the Penn Quarter farmer’s market and shouting, [...]

Scenes From a Midnight McDonalds

It was a dark, cold, not exactly windy night. Late night, 2 a.m. It was last night, to be exact. I had had a day. Mad errand running, long drive to get cheap Craigslist desk, long, hard hauling of the desk from car to apartment building, down stairs, around tricky corners, much getting stuck, and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]