Sometimes, I feel like I just can’t do it anymore. I wake up one morning, and I lie in bed without checking my e-mail immediately, like I usually do, because I know…
Category: Recipes
Becoming a Wine-O: 2008 Espigueiro Vinho Verde
I’ve always been obsessed with wine: the way it looks, the way it tastes, the way it smells. I love the fact that it’s alive, that the process has been perfected over…
Pork Chops with Spicy Pineapple Salsa
When I was in elementary school, my biggest fear was the day that our gym teacher would inevitably annouce that we were running “the mile.” Running “the mile” was something that every…
Cake Day: Cream Cheese Sandwich Cookies
I used to think I didn’t care what people thought of me. I’m brutally honest and wildly sarcastic. I’m high-stress and low-energy. I’m acutely aware of being mildly to moderately crazy, depending…
German Food
When I was growing up, dinners were usually pretty similar. Most nights, we had chicken: either breaded chicken cutlets or a roast chicken. As a side, we had pasta with tomato sauce…
Watermelon and Feta Salad with Cucumber and Mint
One summer, a few years back, some family friends came to stay with us on our house on Long Island. I was pickier then: still not picky, but definitely not the adventurous…
So-Good-You-Could-Bathe-In-It Onion Confit
In the two years that I’ve lived in Paris, both of my mother’s sisters have come to visit, and both of them have had the experience that is dining at Chez Fernand….
Daring Bakers: Cheesecake
The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge. When I was in my first year of college, I spent a…
Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: Iron Chef
And now for something completely different. As many of you who read this blog regularly probably know, I am a recent university graduate. I graduated a semester early, which means that most…
Jaegerschnitzel with Spaetzle
Writing about my grandfather in yesterday’s post reminded me of this recipe, something that he’d be far more likely to eat than the healthy stuff I posted yesterday. After all, it doesn’t…