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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]