as you know, i love really involved recipes. as it happens, i’ve had a yen for spaghetti and meatballs for some time – comforting, savory but slightly sweet, altogether delicious. it is also, however, a cold-weather food, but luckily for me the weather complied […]
this gingerbread is nothing like a gingerbread cookie: it’s moist, dense, slightly sticky, and intensely gingery – everything you wish when you eat gingerbread, and more. this is the sort of thing that would be fabulous on a cold night, topped with whipped cream. it’s […]
it’s completely unremarakable that upon returning from taipei and also from palermo, i had dinner with my family. what is rather odd is the dinner itself – chinese takeout after taipei, and as it happens, italian after palermo. sadly for palermo, i rather think that […]
sometimes i wonder how we discovered that durians are a desirable food source: they’re spiky and hard on the outside, smell rotten on the inside, and the little white pods are stringy on the outside and custardy on the inside. i suppose that back whenever […]
restaurant openings in my neighborhood always cause me some pain along with the joy. i very much like craigie street bistrot, and am quite happy that now it’s around the corner on main street. at the same time, i really am not that happy that […]
yeah, that was just my ploy to get you to read this. while i did just take a swig of milk that turned out to be curdled (really, whole foods? after a week?), this post is really about caramel. but first, let me tell you […]
i have never really understood the point of arraying things on a plate in separate areas, only to turn around and stuff it all into your mouth at the same time anyway. why not save your guests the trouble of cutting everything up? of course, […]
my feet are killing me because i just ran to school (ok, walked really fast; i don’t run) to get my computer – i’m having dinner at josh’s and i’m shamelessly using it as an excuse to have him help me extract my hard drive […]
i am exhausted. i have been sleeping poorly all week, probably from attempting to wake up well before my body really wants me to. so then i’m half asleep for anywhere from half an hour to three hours, and i’m sure it’s messing up my […]
just to start with an aside: i added a pork tenderloin (one of the big ones, you know, ~2′ long or so) to the collection of frozen meats in the freezer. to date, i have: 1 pork tenderloin, in quarters; 1 lb bacon; 1 large […]