A few months ago we were in Mexico City (more on that later) and one of my absolute favorite places to go was Bósforo, a teeny tiny mezcaleria that was located a few blocks from our hotel. They serve really creative takes on Mexican food with fresh ingredients like house-made tortillas, and their main specialty…
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Eric Ripert’s California Bee Sting from Avec Eric.
Every once in a while I find myself feeling the urge to bring out my fancy rocks glasses that I inherited from my grandmother when we cleaned out her house years ago. They belonged originally to my great-great aunt who sponsored my grandmother’s emigration to the U.S. from Ireland, and they always stood in a…
Preparing for the Feast of the Seven Fishes with Mimi Thorisson’s seared scallops and cauliflower puree with orange-caper sauce.
As I write this, we’re a week out from Christmas Eve and we’ve only started discussing what we might want to eat at my in-laws’ home for the Feast of the Seven Fishes. I did a little brainstorming on Black Friday over snacks and glasses of wine with my in-laws, but nothing terribly finalized, and…
An Aperol Spritz inspired by The Sandbox at 1 Hotel in Miami Beach.
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,…
Sabor de soledad: mango-cucumber salad with sambal shrimp as inspired by Stephanie Izard.
As I’m writing this, Michael is at the airport, headed to San Antonio for trip number two of three he’s taking this month for work, so I’ve been busy figuring out my meal plan for when he’s gone. This is going to be the longest trip of the three, thankfully, but of course now we…
5.24.15: dinner (a sendoff to Mad men, albeit a week and change late)
It appears that 2015 is the year that so many of my favorite pop culture items say goodbye, from Parks and Recreation and Mad Men‘s finales to Xavi Hernandez leaving FC Barcelona after seventeen years to the retirement of Jon Stewart from The Daily Show; had The Mindy Project’s cancellation from Fox not resulted…
Hawksmoor at Home’s cured beef tenderloin.
I’m not sure what it was that made me think making salt-cured beef in the fridge was a perfect idea for a chilly January weekend, but all I do know is that when I took out our copy of Hawksmoor at Home one Thursday morning before breakfast and I flipped open to that page, my…
9.27.14: dinner (the first pizza night in far too long)
One thing I was hoping we’d be able to do following our vacation was to make one last jaunt to our local beach, and thankfully this past weekend gave us two picture-perfect days to choose from. While everyone else in New England descended upon their favorite orchard in which to go apple picking (or so…
Summer-into-fall cocktails: La Tasqueta de Caldes’s autumnal gintònic
Like I had predicted a few weeks ago, our trip included many a good gintonic, especially when we were on the beach in Caldetes. While the lion’s share of them were traditional—served in giant balloon stemware and garnished with a hefty lemon peel—the creative minds at La Tasqueta de Caldes had to be the ones…
Rosé and caftan season, or: how I resolve to enjoy the late spring and summer months.
Two weeks ago we finally decided on where we’d go on vacation this year (our first trip together since New Orleans last spring), and while I’m really excited about that, I am determined to not wish away the late spring and summer months because that will only lead to massive seasonal affective disorder/depression come November.*…
The Manhattan [food] Project 