Our first day in Barcelona was pretty great; the flight over was relatively painless and we were able to get our bags fairly quickly after clearing customs. (I’d also like to mention that they actually stamp your passport with your visa here, which is not as common as it once was.) We were out and…
Barcelona’s Bar Marsella and their gin, fig, and honey cocktail, which I have named La Fi de L’Estu.
Bar Marsella first came on my radar four years ago when I was doing research for our last vacation to Barcelona; specifically, I wanted to spend a day doing a walking tour of the city finding various filming locations from Vicky Cristina Barcelona because it’s one of my favorite movies, despite its director being highly…
Imatges/ Irudiak de Espanya/ Espainiako, a beginning of sorts.
Prior to last week, it had been four years since I’ve been in Spain, or really traveled abroad anywhere; I’m not sure what happened, except that in 2016 we just never got around to putting something together and life simply got int the way the other times. Since this October marks our tenth anniversary, we…
Images from Pennsylvania, Centralia edition.
If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know that recently we spent some time wandering around Centralia, PA. One of our close friends from college was visiting us and the three of us were en route up to the Wilkes-Barre area for a little reunion with the rest of our gang from the St. Joe’s…
Discovering cucamelons and making The Gail from Bringing it Home.
I feel like the last six or seven weeks has been conspicuously rainy here in Baltimore, and on the East Coast in general. Every week seems to have at least one cloudburst, and more recently it’s a matter of when, not if, a rainstorm is going to converge over us. When we were in PA…
Roasted chicken with crème fraiche and herbs, from Mimi Thorisson’s A Kitchen in France.
It’s August now (how is it August?) and we’ve been largely avoiding the oven as much as possible because it’s been either hot, humid, or both and so we’ve largely been using our Griddler and the stove and also resorting to ceviche pretty frequently too. So it may seem pretty weird to be writing about…
Some cocktails we’ve been sipping on this summer: Franny’s Rhubarb Bridge and Alton Brown’s Bitter-Day Martini
My interest in cocktails waxes and wanes: sometimes I’d rather drink something that barely qualifies as one like a kir, and other times I’ll happily pull a bunch of bottles off the shelf and mix together something elaborate and interesting. Often I’ll kind of go to the beat of my own drum, but lately I’ve…
My top New Orleans picks, the Chris Hannah Napkin edition.
When I first sat down to write about our recent trip to New Orleans, initially my plan was to condense it into a concise top five list of food and drink that we enjoyed…and then I realized that was basically an impossible task. I then realized that I could break out my favorite drinks and…
Images from Baltimore, Herb Festival 2018 edition.
I’ll be honest—I wasn’t sure if we were going to go to the Baltimore Herb Festival this year because with my additions to the lineup last year, I kind of thought I was set. But the mint we got outgrew its pot likwhoa, and the black pear pepper plant also outgrew its pot, and then…
Notes on pasta-making, or: what’s been keeping me in the kitchen lately.
If you aren’t following Kara Brown’s Fancy Pasta Bitch blog, you absolutely must—she was one of my favorite writers at Jezebel, and now she’s a staff writer on the Black-ish spinoff Grownish on Freeform*. She took up pasta making as a new hobby to cope with that man and his heinous administration and started blogging…
