I mentioned in an earlier post that I was never expecting to fall in love with Miami during our travels there this past spring, but fall in love with it I did. The moment that kicked my excitement into high gear can be pinpointed back to when we made it onto the Julia Tuttle Causeway,…
Tagliolini with burst cherry tomatoes, rosemary, and ricotta as inspired by Gail Simmons and Bringing It Home.
I have a few pots of rosemary in my windowsill herb garden, in part because my first pot of rosemary seemingly took forever to grow. (Granted, I didn’t help this by putting the pot in partial shade initially and so I had to replace some of the original rosemary with newer plants.) All of my…
Boqueria’s sangría de vino rosado, or: what I did with my summer produce, drinks edition.
Not long after we moved to Stamford from New York, I planned to do this whole tapas crawl around Manhattan, and as I’ve implied in this post over at Maps of Fun, it was kind of a disaster because, like, half of the places we went to either were not open until later in the…
Images (not from) New York, Chicago in July edition.
On a last-minute impulse not long before the Fourth of July, Michael turned to me one night and told me he had an itch to go somewhere for the long weekend. His first instinct was New Orleans (because neither of us can stop talking about how much we want to go back there), but all…
A tale of two scallop dishes: scallop carpaccio with radishes and seared scallops, both with ginger-chive pesto.
Before we begin, I have to pay tribute to one of the best talking-head interview moments from reality television ever and I’m kind of shocked that in all of my discussion of scallops on this blog, I’ve never done it before now:
Tomato tartare, Albert Adrià-style, to celebrate tomato season and stave off Fall Creep.
“Tomatoes—wholesome, unextravagant, and endlessly photogenic—exist somewhere in the comforting middle, a mundane joy in an absurd world.” – Amanda Mull Fall Creep is real, and I’m seeing it this year on all fronts, from the pumpkin-spice tea display that’s been at my Harris Teeter since the end of July, to the people on my Facebook…
Lamb shishlik with pistachio tehina sauce from Zahav.
There’s a lot to like about The Deacon, the AirBnB/event space we stayed at for D & E’s wedding, but one of my favorite touches was the small collection of cookbooks they kept in the kitchen. There’s a mix of indie publishers including Cherry Bombe and Lucky Peach (RIP), but I also smiled at seeing…
Lombardy-style pizza with sausage, rosemary, and an egg on top.
As much as I understand Michael’s desire to minimize the amount of heat that we pump into our apartment during the summer, I still can’t help myself from longing for homemade pizza even when it’s hot AF outside. Part of it is a desire to enjoy the bounty of summer on a pizza crust, and…
Chicken wings with garlic and sherry, Spanish-style.
A very silly problem in the life of a food blogger is that in your quest to try lots of food, you end up neglecting favorite recipes until you make them randomly and then berate yourself for not making them sooner. Having arrived home after a little jaunt a few weeks ago, I was on…
The unique experience of bourbon tasting in Louisville.
One activity I couldn’t squeeze in during our recent trip to Louisville was going to one of the local distilleries and do a bourbon tasting. There are a few in the downtown area, but unfortunately, most of them are either not open Sunday-Tuesday or they only hold tasting during business hours, which meant I would…
