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…

Spaghetti all’amatriciana and a #virtualsagra for Amatrice and Central Italy.

This past weekend was lovely, if it also went by too quickly, because we were able to cook at our own speed and please only ourselves. While I’m grateful for everything we’ve been able to do and thankful for everyone who came ’round last weekend to celebrate Michael, I was sorely in need of a…

Spaghetti with sausage, sage, and butter sauce and some exciting news.

I’ve written about fifty drafts of this post, not wanting to commit to one lest something happen, but I guess it’s finally time to let the cat out of the bag since I already did so on Instagram: we’re officially homeowners. As people who have rented our entire adult lives, this is momentous less for…

Sabor de soledad roundup, Michael back in the UK edition.

Michael was in the UK for most of this past week, and so for the first time in a while I had a few days to myself to make whatever I wanted. Obviously, the first thing I did was buy a boatload of cheeses. The next thing I did after running some errands on Sunday…

Winter citrus pasta as inspired by Franny’s in an effort to ignore the cold for a bit.

Well, I hope you’re happy, you who yearn for fall and start pinning pictures of pumpkins and sweaters and boots on Pinterest in JUNE and/or have excited countdowns for the start of football season. It might seem irrational to blame a certain group of people for the bitter cold and varying degrees of snow outside,…

World Cup 2014 roundup 1: heartbreak and comfort foods.

Welp, that was quick and embarrassing. Longtime readers will remember me following along with the 2010 World Cup and Spain’s march to victory, and it was a thrilling thing to behold. La Furia Roja has played well since then, taking another Euro title in 2012 and just falling short to Brazil in the Confederations Cup last…

05.26.13: dinner (lobster soup with “shredded” spaghetti, or spaghetti tagliuzzati con zuppa di aragosta)

Lobster and pasta: it sounds so simple, doesn’t it? And doesn’t it sound like the epitome of the springtime or summer meal, something to enjoy after a nice day at the beach, perhaps served with a refreshing beer or glass of white wine? Oh, were it so simple. The truth of the matter is that…

04.20.11: dinner (ferran adrià, clams, spaghetti and the Copa del Rey)

So, the Copa happened and it was tense and frustrating and ultimately disappointing thanks to a Cristiano Ronaldo header in extra time that put Real Madrid up 1-0. But it would be completely naive to think that Barcelona would emerge victorious in every scuffle these two teams would engage in over two weeks, and in the…

11.07.10: dinner (spaghetti and roasted peppers FTW…almost).

  Michael likes to rile me up any way he can (and I respond in kind by calling him Wrong-Way-M60 because last winter he hopped off the train and got on a M60 that took him to LaGuardia instead of home), and one of his more recent tactics to stir up my (completely not-serious) ire…

07.04.10: dinner (mussels steamed in Victory Golden Monkey is always a good decision).

One lone bottle of Victory Golden Monkey has been languishing in our fridge for a while not because we don’t like it, but out of a strange dance of politeness. Neither Michael nor I wanted to be the one to finish it off, I think, out of deference to the other, and so it sat…