Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
Caramelized onions are very French and French is very sophisticated. Hence, adding caramelized onions to just about any dish will make it more sophisticated. I decided to try out this theory with a recipe I found on A Cozy Kitchen. The onions take the most time so I stuck them in a pan with olive…
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My plan for book club was to make one of my Mom’s pies. I got the recipe and was all ready to go…until I couldn’t find the main ingredient in the grocery store. So there I was, standing in D’Ag at 8:45 PM the night before, no idea what I was going to make. I…
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Ever have a feeling that’s so rare you need to pause and acknowledge it? Well last week I had the urge to bake muffins and since I never want to bake I had to stop and give this feeling some attention. I don’t bake because I don’t really like it – it’s too precise. At least,…
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Now that I’m further from the N/R line, I go to Eataly less frequently then I used to. After some thinking (it shouldn’t have taken me this long to figure out), I realized it’s not that far of a walk from the 6 or my apartment in general if I want to get in a…
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This was a Pinterest project. It was one of the earlier things that popped up on the site and looked too easy to actually work, which is why I’ve taken so long to try it. Turns out, it works and couldn’t be easier. Just take your favorite flavor of Greek yogurt, put it in a…
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Sometimes you want a salad but you don’t want lettuce. Know what I’m sayin? You don’t? Come on, don’t tell me that sometimes you wish you could have that cold, fresh, crispy, crunchy satisfaction you get from a salad without all the bulk of the lettuce base. If the salad is meant as a starter,…
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I don’t know that you can call it a burger when there’s no bun. If we’re getting technical, I actually don’t know that you can call it a burger when it’s made with turkey. All this rule breaking – it’s anarchy! I’m not a fan if turkey burgers in general. They’re usually too dry, but…
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I recently saw a recipe that called for a mixture of dried figs and crumbled blue cheese to be stuffed into a pork tenderloin. That sounded easy, but do you know what sounds even easier? Using up the fig butter that’s still in my refrigerator. It’s all fig so the flavor is basically the same.…
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I bought fig butter for a recipe recently and had half a jar leftover. I didn’t want to waste it so I worked to find a recipe that incorporated it. This may come as a surprise, but fig butter is not one of my go to ingredients. It is by no means a typical condiment…
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My first experience cooking polenta started out a little scary but it only took me a few minutes to pull it together and make a simple and satisfying Italian dish. The sweat started bubbling on my brow within 30 seconds of the cooking process. No no, girls don’t sweat; they glow. The glow took over my…
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Peaches to Apples 