Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
After weeks of crazy, I latched onto a week with few plans and didn’t let go. Sure, I have a happy hour planned tonight and a concert/night out on Saturday, but that’s far more relaxing than the last few weeks. For sanity’s sake, I promised myself I wouldn’t add anything else to the schedule. I’ve…
Read MoreAshley and I had a couple of overlapping trips – me to Curacao, her to Hong Kong/Manila and Savannah. With all that exciting travel going on, we needed a dinner to catch each other up and decided to go to Numero 28 Pizzeria. The brick oven pizza was nice and rustic – they didn’t worry…
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La Giara is one of the few places in my immediate neighborhood that I hadn’t tried, so I was excited when Marilynn decided to hold her 25th birthday brunch there. I never thought of it as a brunch place – walking by, it seems more like a traditional Italian supper spot. Turns out, they do…
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Between the Christmas break and a busy few weeks preceding it, I felt like I hadn’t seen Linds in for.ev.er. We decided to fix that by making dinner plans on Wednesday, the first day back from break. We needed some comfort food to ease us back into work so we decided on an Italian restaurant that…
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The full NYE recap will be in another post, but there was one dish I made for the New Years pregame I hosted that deserves it’s very own post here and now. You don’t hear “lettuce wraps” without thinking of P.F. Changs. I think even people who have never eaten at P.F. Changs know the…
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I had mentioned in my Oyster Roast post that Allison made an appetizer that I had plans to steal and this week I did just that at book club. I promised I would give Allison full credit and here I am, giving her a big pat on the back for sharing this recipe because it…
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I’ve seen people making lasagna rollups on the Food Network for years now but never thought it was for me. What could be easier than regular lasagna? Lasagna rollups, that’s what. While I cooked the lasagna noodles, I mixed up ricotta, shredded mozzarella, and fresh spinach (you could use frozen if you prefer but defrosting…
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I would put Leoci’s in Savannah up against any Italian restaurant in New York. I went there for the first time on Saturday and absolutely loved it. The homemade pasta is what propels them into the superior Italian stratosphere and their sauces keep them there. I ordered one of the daily specials but tasted everybody’s…
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I am dreaming about cheese. Not just any cheese: the housemade stracciatella at Spasso. It’s been nine days and this cheese is all I can think about. It falls somewhere between the firm outside and creamy inside of burrata cheese and is a stringy gobbledy goop in a bowl, topped with olive oil and sea…
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Liz and I both had Monday off for Columbus day, but not everyone else was so lucky. While Puckett went back to work and the other boys flew back to Atlanta, the two of us had our own little bestie day. After touring the National Cathedral, we headed to Georgetown for lunch and a little…
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Peaches to Apples 