Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
Fig butter, dijon/grain mustard, and pear champagne vinaigrette are mixed together in a 1:1:2 ratio and poured over chicken. If we’re getting technical, 2/3 of the mixture goes over the chicken, then it bakes at 350 for 30 minutes until it’s time to flip over, cover with remaining sauce, and bake for another hour and…
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I wouldn’t have known Monday was National Lasagna Day if Albert had not pointed it out to me. Thankfully, lasagna is an easy dish to throw together so I didn’t need much advanced notice to celebrate. But boring, standard lasagna doesn’t really say “celebration” so I wanted to update the recipe – something that’s easy…
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Book club starts at 7:30 and as luck would have it, I was scheduled to host during one of my busiest work weeks. I got off the subway at 7:10 and still hadn’t picked up any ingredients. By 7:25 I was in my apartment after running through the grocery store to pick up the four…
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I had a nice bottle of champagne on hand and was determined to use it for mimosas on the roof this past weekend so I invited Beth over for a Saturday brunch. I couldn’t just serve mimosas – that’s just not the kind of hostess I am – so I prepared two summer salads. The…
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I love lemon cream pasta. Carbonara is pretty good, too. Basically pasta with cream sauce is decadent comfort food. Have I told you anything you didn’t already know? If you’re like me and you love creamy pasta, read on. I followed this recipe and couldn’t believe how amazing it tasted. You don’t feel like you’re sacrificing…
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Avocado goes great with citrus and anyone who’s eaten at a sushi restaurant knows that avocado and edamame work well together. Just a hunch, but that means grapefruit and edamame could work together with avocado doing the back end work of bringing them together. I just told you the three main ingredients for this salad.…
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Years ago my family took our boat out for a weekend camping trip. On the last morning I was put in charge of making breakfast out of whatever we had leftover. I ended up making breakfast burritos out of shrimp we caught straight off the side of the boat and some cajun seasoning we had…
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I had seen some sort of pasta made with brie on Pinterest but never got around to trying it. I’ll put cheese in anything, especially pasta, but brie seemed like the one cheese that wouldn’t work. I kept putting it off until I found myself leaving work late and needing something I could whip up…
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You and me go together like peas and carrots…except I don’t like peas and carrots. But once I discovered how great Greek yogurt and mayonnaise could be as a dressing, I wanted to see if it could save this dish. Once of my biggest issues with peas and carrots is that I don’t really like…
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As a child, I watched in horror as people would pile grocery store potato salad on their plates at grill outs. It looked like a gross mess and even made a weird “squirslop” sound as it plunked onto the plastic dinnerware. In recent years, however, I’ve become a fan of potato salad when it’s homemade…
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Peaches to Apples 