After my first trip to Little Havana, I Ubered back over to South Beach as the weather had improved significantly by the early afternoon and I wanted to take a stroll down Ocean Drive and take in the hist ts smack dab in the middle of it all, and because it was so nice that…
Category: food
Pipérade/piperrada with poached eggs and prosciutto from The Cherry Bombe Cookbook.
I was on such a Basque food tear in the months following our September trip that I basically forced myself to take a break, lest I burn out on making all of that delicious food and neglect my other favorite foods like pasta. Fast-forward to two months ago, when Michael was on a work trip…
Making Marc Vetri’s nine-yolk tagliolini with pistachio-orange pesto.
M’s little brother is getting married in June, and he’s asked us to help out with the rehearsal dinner. We’ll be cooking in a brand-new, state-of-the-art facility that’s part Airbnb and part community/event space, and we’re working on finalizing the menu as I write this. We gave him and his fiance the choice between two–one…
Matbucha (Moroccan tomato and pepper salad) with soft scrambled eggs from Israeli Soul.
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Mushroom eggs from Basque Country for Sunday brunch.
While I won’t say that every brunch dish we make at home won’t actually be brunch-ish or brunch-adjacent, I have to admit that this new little exercise of ours is encouraging me to scour my cookbooks for the dishes I felt would always be perfect for that time of day first. Since most of them…
