September 7, 2011

A Week’s Worth of Breakfasts

What does a food blogger eat for breakfast? In my blog post Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant, I talked about how most of my meals - the undocumented ones - are actually pretty...

September 3, 2011

Scenes from SOWA Sundays

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who loved to shop. Even as a young girl, her mother would always take her shopping with her. All the salespeople knew the little girl's name...

August 31, 2011

Cooking Class at Stir

How did you learn to cook? My cooking skills were born out of necessity. I never had any interest in cooking when I was younger (my interests were mostly in eating) but when I moved...

August 27, 2011

Brunch at Om

What do you think of when you hear the word Om? I think of yoga. Meditation. A serene place where I can relax. But now, when I hear the word Om, I think of eggs. And...

August 24, 2011

A Love Letter to St-Germain

Dear St-Germain, I had my first sip of you two years ago and since then we have been inseparable. I always have you stocked at home, and you're the star in one of my very...

By the end of this post you will learn two things: One, how to make dangerously easy chocolate chip cookie dough truffles. And two, a secret I've been trying to keep for a couple...

August 17, 2011

Crunchy Top Brownies

My friend Dan has been asking me for months to make some rice crispy treats. Dan is a constant taste tester for my baked goods and I so I promised him that yes, one...

Meryl Streep. Robert DeNiro. Sheep's milk ricotta. Eggplant parm. And (lots of) espresso martinis. Those words just about sum up my very fun evening at TriBeCa last week. I went to New York last weekend and...

August 10, 2011

7 Links

This 7 Links post have been going around the blogosphere and I thought I'd play along. I don't hide my love for making lists (check out my Favorite Food Books and last year's Top 10...

Do you want some FREE ICE CREAM? If you're in Boston, you're in luck because the Ben & Jerry's Scoop Truck will be in the city for the month of August. I am pretty much enthralled...