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Savory meet Sweet. You guys could really get along – Olive Oil Cake
I have a new favorite cake in this world. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t make it for my choice of birthday cakes. Birthdays are for special occasion foods and I’m making this cake WAY too often for it to be a special occasion cake. It’s more of an everyday cake (if there really were such a thing). It’s an eat-another-piece-for-breakfast kind of cake. It’s an I-like-savory-way-more-than-sweets kind of cake. That’s what drew me to it in... Read More
Chunky is Good. Chunky is Very Good. – some of my theories on pasta
There is something I have to tell you. It is so crazy that I’m not really sure how to say it, so I’m just gonna put it out there – there are people in this world who actually think that pasta salad is all about (wait for it…) the pasta. I know! It boggles my mind too! …or maybe it’s just me. When I see a pasta salad that is just a pile of cold spiral noodles with a few light sprinkles of bell pepper and dressing I honestly think – “Really?... Read More
Reasons for Cravings – Plum Tart
I’ve been looking for a reason for my sudden otherwise inexplicable foray into baking so many cakes and pies this season. I had thought it was just the inspiring selections from my always-pushing neighborhood fruit stand guys. These plums were irresistible with their freckles looking like a map of the universe on their glowing purple skin… but that doesn’t really explain it. As I stand by my counter cutting through my bounty I begin feeling the comfort of the... Read More
The City’s Great Street Stalls – making apricot upside down cake
So I live in New York City and one of my first shocks when I started to live here is how truly expensive food is. Not just eating out (which there are too many great options for to choose from) but in the grocery store. Everything is “an arm and a leg” kind of expensive. I’ve made a spaghetti dinner for 6 people and had a grocery bill of over $70 for it! I’m not the kind of girl to waste heirloom tomatoes on spaghetti – that was the bill for my mom’s... Read More
Why Did It Take Me So Long – Discovering Cocktails.
I should probably point out to start that I am not a big drinker. I can hold my liquor, to be sure, but I don’t feel the need to consume it often or in any great quantities. Nearly two weeks after I turned 21 my roommate finally insisted on buying me a drink when I still hadn’t bothered with the rites of passage of legally leaving prohibition. She bought me what I consider to this day a great dessert in a glass – Bailey’s Irish Cream, Frangelico, and Amaretto... Read More
On Inventing – are you willing to fail?
I was once told by a ten year old boy covered in ice cream, (ice cream that was once chocolate, neon blue cotton candy and mango sorbets but had turned to a melting gray blob) that I need to be more inventive. I invent recipes all the time. I’m inventive. Or so I thought. His goatee of smeared ice cream suited the wise smile he gave me when he explained that no – I think about things and if they work in my head I do them – I need to try things that might not... Read More
Cocktails
Why Did It Take Me So Long – Discovering Cocktails.
I should probably point out to start that I am not a big drinker. I can hold my liquor, to be sure, but I don’t feel the need to consume it often or in any great quantities. Nearly two weeks after I turned 21 my roommate finally insisted on buying me a drink when I [...]
Cravings
Dinner in 10 Minutes – Mustard Crusted Salmon
Spring and summer are great seasons to make lighter dinners and start getting into salads again. I, for one, can’t stand a salad in the winter, but a few days of warm sunshine and I’m crazy about them all over again. So I’m getting ready for the fresh seasons again with my old stand-by recipe [...]
Thoughts On Life
Fresh Starts and New Year’s Resolutions
It’s not New Years. It’s not even Valentines anymore. Where have I been? Well… I have a problem. I am a workaholic. Recently I lost myself in my work, not coming up for air long enough to write. I love my work and I’m passionate about my projects… but I’ve missed this. I’ve missed these [...]
The Dinner Party Regular
The 3 Bean Posts – #1 Garbanzos: Falafel and other funny words
I have been craving chickpeas. Literally. I’m going mad wanting chickpeas in everything right now. I think it’s because they are a relatively new ingredient discovery for me. You know when you learn a new word or phrase and then suddenly you hear it everywhere? That’s what happening right now with me and chickpeas. Sitting [...]
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