Full disclosure: I don’t actually have that many Victorian-era decor items other than a set of paper houses I cut out when I was a kid and a pre-Raphaelite tree angel I think I bought from the Met catalogue 30 years ago. So around my place, “Victorian” kinda means “more is more” and also “putContinue reading “Victorian Blue-and-White Christmas”
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Wednesday’s Child: Welsh Cookies
I had never eaten Welsh cookies before I met my ex-husband. I think the first time I tasted them was from a care package his mother sent to Texas around the holidays. Petite, tender with butter, redolent of nutmeg and studded with chewy little currents, they charmed me. I liked how they were fried, likeContinue reading “Wednesday’s Child: Welsh Cookies”
The Grocery Store
I realized last week that one of the most significant and long-standing relationships of my life hasn’t been with a person but with a place: the grocery store. Naturally, there have been many grocery stores over the years, but if taken together they make this sort of Ur-space where I have worked out some ofContinue reading “The Grocery Store”
Experimental Supper Club #7: Birthday Edition
I hand-wrote these menus on postcards and then immediately recycled them like a genius…so I don’t have any pictures for you. But the centerpiece was David Chang’s famous Momofuku Bo Ssam, which came out very well. Everyone went nuts for Smitten Kitchen’s Miso Black Sesame poporn, which we had as an appetizer with somewhat forgettableContinue reading “Experimental Supper Club #7: Birthday Edition”
Experimental Supper Club #6
The highlights of this one were definitely the lamb burgers and the zhug. The tart was a show-stopper but way too sweet for me: you can’t control the sugar in the white chocolate, but if I made it again, I would cut the sugar in the meringue by half.
Happy Halloween
I can’t believe I haven’t posted these on here yet. I’m pretty sure these came from a Woman’s Day magazine in the check-out line at the supermarket like 15 years ago. I don’t think I even bought the magazine–they’re pretty easy to reverse engineer and even easier to make if you use box cake andContinue reading “Happy Halloween”
Experimental Supper Club #5
As I’ve written before, I use Paprika to organize my recipes, and one of the category labels I use is “Try” for recipes I haven’t made yet. But at some point, I started saving recipes to this category faster than I made them, and it got completely out of control–350 recipes or something like that.Continue reading “Experimental Supper Club #5”
Nakasendo Trail: Post-game show
Two words: SUMO and CAPYBARAS. But not yet. We woke up to a hot, hazy morning in Tōkyō. Just a couple of blocks strolling around Asakusa made it very clear we were going to have to make a plan that involved air conditioning. So, we set off for the Tōkyō National Museum and enjoyed aContinue reading “Nakasendo Trail: Post-game show”
Nakasendo Trail: Day 6 (Oku-Hida and Takayama)
Really, I have no one to blame but myself. I’m the one who insisted on (me at least) catching the 10 am bus to Takayama so I could maximize my time in the traditional lacquerware town before we caught our train back to Tōkyō. True, Cheryl is the one who then suggested we get upContinue reading “Nakasendo Trail: Day 6 (Oku-Hida and Takayama)”
Sketty Noodles
Look, honestly I don’t think it would help to provide context…so enjoy!
The Rookery 