Fried eggs with latkes and jamón serrano, as inspired by the huevos rotos at Mercado Little Spain’s Spanish Diner.

We had a pretty whirlwind little trip to New York in early April, and M mentioned he was open to getting dinner one of our two nights at Mercado Little Spain. Usually how we do it now is that we’ll walk over to Grand Central Terminal to have some oysters at the GC Oyster Bar,…

Images (not) from New York, another night in downtown LA edition.

Last year, over the Super Bowl weekend, we went to Hollywood, FL for one of Michael’s work conferences and had a pretty great time. This same show apparently likes to alternate between the East Coast and West Coast, so this time they held the show in Hollywood, CA. Since that is a considerably longer flight,…

Tomato-flavored lasagnette all’amatriciana.

April was kind of a strange month. It started out great–we were finishing up our week in Mexico City–and a week later we were getting ready for the Easter holiday weekend that we’d be spending in PA. I was a bit jet-lagged because I didn’t sleep great during our trip, and I blame that on…

Spicy salmon tiradito  as inspired by Lorraine Pascale.

With spring now officially here, I can now think about my weekly raw/pickled/cured fish dishes less as pretending to be somewhere warmer for dinner and instead be an actually refreshing dish on a hot day. It’s still pretty chilly here in Baltimore–March has really leaned into the whole “lion” side of the old weather adage–but…

Images (not) from New York, return to Daytona Beach edition.

There was a time when I thought I wouldn’t be making the return back to Daytona Beach this year, mainly because we thought we were going somewhere else at that time. That trip was postponed for about six weeks, so back to Daytona we went. Though Daytona didn’t leave the best first impression on me,…