forgive me if you are reading this and you actually celebrate easter (as opposed to consuming large amounts of chocolate). neither jessica nor i are religious, but the allure of the mimosa resulted in an easter celebration. i’d never had a mimosa before, but it’s […]
our menus for the week before and after spring break: 11 mars / lisa : legumes en cocotte, mostaccioli alfredo, brown sugar pound cake 13 mars / michelle : salade nicoise, pates au pistou, ratatouille, gratin d’abricots aux amandes 14 mars / jessica lee : […]
i originally wrote this about a week ago, while i was in studio one early morning. unfortunately, lame-athena (an earlier version that is what scarpa, the uber-old, uber-slow athena machine in studio) wouldn’t let me post this then, so here it is now. * * […]
27 fevrier / betsy : bread, spinach salad, zucchini casserole, strawberry sorbet 28 fevrier / lauren : black-eyed peas, collard greens, potato-cheddar bake, squash casserole, cornbread, peach cobbler 1 mars / keith : honey-apricot chicken, mushroom risotto with sundried tomatoes, banana splits 2 mars / […]
jessica and i (or, to better describe it, jessica) decided to throw a chinese new year bash this year. we decided to celebrate the following weekend due to impending homework. on our ambitious, but not too ambitious menu: scallion pancakes, a lotus root salad, vegetable […]
after having swallowed too many bites of those awful carmel ice cream cakes, my sister and i began making our grandmother’s birthday cake every year. for the past four years or so, we’ve made variations on the same cake for her birthday, which falls on […]
it has been three years and still jessica won’t divulge the secret of her wonderful christmas cookies. every year i look forward to that little bundle of joy, which smells so happily of spices. in the past few years i’ve been able to exercise some […]
and also for the recipe junkies, here is how i made the chicken gravy which i liked so much. again, like i did for the chicken stew, i eyeballed the amounts of things in this recipe, since i used what was around to make it. […]
i went to picco on saturday night with my parents, nora, and charles. picco is a pizza/pasta place on the first floor of the new apartment building at the east berkely side of tremont street – atelier 505, where nomar reportedly looked for an apartment […]
on tuesday i spent much of the cleanup picking semi-raw chicken off the roasted chickens. by the fourth chicken i was tired of picking it off, and probably didn’t pick it as cleanly as a hungrier person might have. i packed all of that chicken […]