Last August, after our little venture to Centralia and our college reunion in, M and I took our friend C to Philly so she could get her flight to Dublin and we decided to spend the night in the city and head back first thing Monday morning. We hadn’t properly celebrated Michael’s birthday at that…
Recreating El Compadre cocktails from José Andrés’s Bar Centro in Miami Beach.
A funny thing happened when I started reviewing all of the food and drinks I enjoyed during our early April trip to Miami: I realized that it would be way easier to recreate the cocktails we enjoyed versus most of the food. We ate very, very well when we were down there, but so much…
Alton Brown’s cacio e pepe from Good Eats: Reloaded
As annoying as Google can be with news alerts and the like (no, I don’t need to receive every freaking article about Avengers: Endgame ever, especially when most of them have the same information!!!), I have to admit that I squealed recently when I received a notification that Good Eats: The Return has officially started…
Images (not from) New York, Little Havana edition.
One thing I had promised myself during my first trip to Miami was that I was going to go beyond Miami Beach proper and explore some of the other parts of the city. I had some noble notions of trying to navigate public transportation while I was there, but in talking to the concierge it…
Spicy sausage and roasted fennel pizza.
As happy as I am that warm weather is becoming the norm rather than a novelty, I’m a little bummed that this means that it will be very soon time to put away my beloved Baking Steel until the late summer/early fall. I received it for my birthday last year, and between Marc Vetri’s dough…
Images (not from) New York, Miami Beach edition.
I mentioned in my most recent post that we were in Miami Beach on account of Michael’s work earlier in the month, and I was able to tag along and explore the city over the course of most of that week. We stayed right at the edge of Mid-Beach and South Beach in a funky…
The Les Halles steak tartare, and a nod to Mac’s Club Deuce in Miami Beach.
As of this writing, my parents have successfully landed in Paris. They’re doing one of those Viking River cruises that will take them up to Normandy and then back again to the City of Lights, and in the weeks leading up to the trip I helped them in researching options of things to do and…
An evening at Fogo de Chao in which we celebrate the arrival of Spring.
Full disclosure: I was invited to taste Fogo de Chao’s new springtime menu, and was able to take a guest. All opinions are my own (or my guest’s if I didn’t try something and he did). A few weeks ago, I was invited to sample Fogo de Chao’s new spring offerings at their Baltimore location,…
A blood orange and rosemary Sicilian-style French 75.
I’m sitting here on the first day of Spring at my desk and it feels particularly meaningful this year. Maybe because this winter felt particularly trying, maybe because so much of 2018 tested me and so many people around me in pretty awful ways, but I’m trying to approach this equinox with cautious optimism. At…
Making gazpacho in February, or: what to do when fresh tomatoes are not at their best.
For years now, my go-to gazpacho recipe has been an adaptation of one from José Andrés, and it’s a really solid recipe. (I just don’t go through with all of the toppings that he puts on top of his, because usually I don’t have time for that.) It’s one of my default summertime dishes, something…
