though none of us are irish, 24 and 44 joined forces on friday night for a st patrick’s day dinner party, i guess you could call it. mirms made colcannon, corned beef, and soda bread, and carrien and i brought beef stew and cupcakes. cupcakes, […]
carrien and i love food, but we’re also poor students. accordingly, we wanted to partake in the newly christened winter restaurant week (i guess business is slow), without breaking the bank. we settled upon lunch ($20.06 as opposed to $30.06) – which, when you consider […]
it always begins like this – i had bought something at star because it was on sale (raspberries at 2 pints/$5), with no actual plans to make anything in particular. as i had bought them a significant number of days ago, carrien and i went […]
yesterday carrien and i (mostly carrien, really) made “samosas” – basically a samosa crossed with spanikopita. the filling is red onions, yellow onions, cumin, spinach, garlic, roasted fennel, and red potatoes; the wrapper is phyllo dough. we were attempting to use our spinach and lettuce […]
marco / 253 hanover street / boston ma / 617-742-1276 / tue-thu 5-10:30pm, fri-sat 5pm-11pm, sun 4pm-9:30pm / reservations accepted / entrees moderately expensive ($15-25) i heard about marco from being on pigalle’s mailing list. after it got a bunch of good reviews, i thought […]
i guess i could never be a dishwasher, because a day after the dinner party, my hands are all itchy and irritated by constant dishwashing. i just put two kinds of gunk on my hands in hopes that they will be happy soon. it’s strange, […]
carrie: and when we go to star, we could get – me: pork loin! carrie: yeah, that too…but i was thinking of ice cream. (24 hours later) carrie: last night i had a dream about rare meat…i think it was the pork loin. * * […]
right now i’m sitting at the kitchen counter, my impending chicken broth on obsessive surveillance for the purpose of skimming off any foam that dares break the surface of the broth. i have vague memories of michael ruhlman’s book about food school and a raft, […]
did you know that trader joe’s (at least the one on boylston) now carries a brand of herbs called “infinite herbs”? if only the “infinite” were true. at any rate, the herbs are perfectly good and a whole 60 cents cheaper than herbs at star […]
when i was younger, my mother used to buy my grandmother’s birthday cake at konditor meister. their cakes were these enormous, wonderful confections – a dark, dark chocolate cake filled with whipped cream and cherries, with a bit of rum. on top, they were decorated […]