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I had a major craving for mac and cheese and couldn’t help but give into it last night. I didn’t just want any mac; I wanted truffle mac. This country may be going into truffle oil exhaustion (it’s everywhere!), but I still think it goes so well with mac and cheese. I went to the…
Read MoreOn Saturday evening, Podz texted me that she just discovered an Ethiopian restaurant in her neighborhood. We had just been talking about how we love Ethiopian food but there are only two restaurants in NYC. Scratch that; apparently there are three. I said we should definitely check it out sometime. Wait a minute – sometime?…
Read MoreLast night was time to celebrate Greg’s 29th birthday with dinner and some bar fun. A few of us met at Macondo for dinner before meeting the rest of the crew at the bar. I’ve heard Macondo has a great drunk brunch so I still plan on returning for that, but dinner was a good…
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My Mom sent me back from our ski trip with this book and told me to start reading it immediately because she knew I would love it. She was right. The book follows Lavinia, an Irish girl brought to America aboard a Virginia tobacco farmer’s ship at the age of 7. With no family, she…
Read MoreWhen I told my Mom about the delicious casserole I cooked last week, she told me that she tried to cook a casserole for my Daddy when they first married. “Casseroles are for poor people,” he told her. He must have later warmed to the idea because I ate a lot of casseroles growing up.…
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Just when Wes Moore is finally making it big (Rhodes Scholar, study abroad, stable family) he learns of another man, also named Wes Moore, who was raised under remarkably similar circumstances but wound up with a life sentence for murder. Both men were born within a year of each other, lived only a few blocks…
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Uber-nerdy, lovelorn Oscar is not your typical Latino from the ghetto, which immediately set this book apart from others. Author Junot Diaz uses a realistic slang voice that further distinguishes the book from other tales of the working class. (It didn’t feel like a mom trying too hard to be hip with her daughter’s friends.)…
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After One Day went gangbusters across the pond, word started spreading in the good ol’ U-S-of A. After reading reviews all over the place, I decided to pick it up before they turned it into a movie (which they are, starring Anne Hathaway). I’m glad I didn’t wait to join the hoards of people already…
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Last night I made spaghetti squash for the first time and I have to admit, the hardest part of the recipe was cutting the squash in half (I think I broke a sweat trying to get my knife through!). I found a recipe that basically used spaghetti squash to replace actual spaghetti, which kept this…
Read MoreLast Saturday we celebrated Matt’s birthday at Ninth Ward. I was impressed for two reasons: I really like the bar – great crowd Jen, who’s been going to sleep around 9:30 due to the fact that she’s popping out a baby in just over 5 weeks, managed to stay up super late This New Orleans…
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Peaches to Apples 