In addition to exploring new places, enjoying some fabulous food and drink, and hanging out with many of M’s colleagues, a small benefit from my recent travels is I get a chance to indulge in some good Food Network viewing. Before flying home from Chicago early in May we had some time to kill in…
Another evening at Fogo de Chao in which we try their lighter offerings for Summer.
Full disclosure: I was again invited to Fogo de Chao along with a guest to try their new summer menu offerings. All opinions are my own (or my guest’s if I didn’t try something). About two months after we had the pleasure of sampling Fogo de Chao’s spring menu offerings, we were invited back to…
The Spicy Brazilian as inspired by Palace in Miami Beach.
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…
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…
Images (not from) New York, introducing a new venture edition.
If you’ve been following me on Instagram lately, you may have noticed that I’ve been doing a little more travel than usual. Michael took on a new role at his company earlier this year that has him traveling more frequently, and after being let go from my most recent job, we used a combination of…
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…
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…
