People don’t change. Or at least… that’s always been my theory. Sure, you can change your mind, change your hair, change your job or even change your life, but I’m fairly certain…
Category: Recipes
Crème Catalane
When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. I’ve always had a hard time with that proverb, not because I don’t believe it’s true, but because I’ve always had a hard time with…
Gazpacho
When I was growing up on Long Island in the summertime, my favorite thing in the world was a whole day spent at the beach. I loved arriving in the morning, towels…
Steaks with Parsley Sauce
I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy to do something I’m so bad at. I’m not talking about cooking: I was never bad at cooking. I was insecure, I had things…
Tomato Salad
I don’t know when my home stopped being my home. It seems as though it just happened yesterday, in a split second, that moment before sleep and awake and suddenly it was…
Tarte à l’oignon
It happens to all of us every once in awhile. Sometimes you read the recipe wrong. Other times, the recipe was wrong to begin with. The oven ran cold, you thought the…
Chocolate Chip Cookies
America has a smell. Maybe not America, but definitely New York. OK… on second thought, scratch that. It’s not New York… it’s JFK. And I’ll go even a bit further to say,…
Quiche
We drive up the path, and even though I’ve been self-consciously wedged between my boyfriend’s mother and one of his best friends for the past several hours as we rode the straight-shot…
Cucugnan
Yes, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. I am here. I am ready. Today is the day that I finally get off my lazy butt and tell you all about our…
Chocolate Mousse
Tomato Kumato started as a tiny project, a little ray of sunshine in the midst an otherwise monotonous summer spent waiting tables on Long Island (a summer that, I’ve come to realize,…