Wednesday, May 4, 2011
I was sitting at work this week, a little uninspired, when I realized my problem. I don’t have ice cream. I’ve been dying for a chocolate ice cream cone for days. It’s what I see when I’m drifting off to sleep at night. As I try to get work done, thoughts of chocolate and cream […]
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Monday, April 25, 2011
It’s been nearly three months since I posted my list of (almost) 100 things I want to do this year. I have to say, I nearly forgot about it for a few weeks (it’s been a distracting month) until it hit me that I was doing things on the list without even meaning to. I’d […]
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
I swear I’m not one to gush over things like autographs and celebrities. I don’t (usually) care about where so-and-so’s house is, or that whatshisname once made sandwiches at this particular deli before making it big. Hard to believe, I know, considering my last post. So when we took a detour to the Smithsonian on […]
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Oh, hi! It’s been a while. I finally escaped the city last week for a little Southern road trippin’. Aside from the 40 degree weather and hail, it was a nice time. Sweet tea, fried chicken, collards, boiled peanuts, barbecue…. It was essentially an eating tour of the South. Now I’m back, five pounds heavier […]
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Friday, March 25, 2011
It’s amazing, the happiness that comes with a little cake, cream, and chocolate. Pastry cream and ganache, I’ve realized, are especially handy when you’re looking for a little happy-making. Last week was Joe’s birthday, and the only thing he asked for was a homemade version of the Brooklyn Cream cake at our favorite bakery, Ladybird. […]
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
St. Joseph’s Day (la festa di San Giuseppe) is a big deal in my family. For starters, saints’ feast days are taken much more seriously in Italian culture than they are here (where they’re not really acknowledged outside of St. Patrick’s Day–oh, today!). We receive cards and phone calls on our namesake’s feast […]
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
I used to think I was a good cook before I met my husband. I’d mastered most of the comfort foods I’d grown up with by the time we met—pastas, meatballs, cutlets—and thought it was more than most single girls could say for themselves. And I could follow directions well, which is why I clung […]
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Monday, March 7, 2011
It rained yesterday. All. Day. Right after that beautiful kind of spring Saturday that gets you excited for warm weather and ice cream cones. Such a nice Saturday that we fired up the grill to celebrate the beginning of the season. Now this. So I tried to embrace this shut-in day by giving winter one […]
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Friday, March 4, 2011
Talking about Polly-O String Cheese got me thinking about all the junk that filled our lunchboxes in the 80’s. I’m sure most of that stuff still graces lunchboxes today, but there was something about the 80’s, when everything was synthetic neon–from our food to our headbands–that makes me think of them as the heyday of […]
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Friday, February 25, 2011
Some of my friends are disgusted by my eating habits. I just get excited about things that would make certain people hurl. I can live with that. When you grow up with favorite foods like lamb brains and pig’s feet, you learn to get comfortable on your lone little island. At least I had my […]
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Dad’s Sour Cream Cake
The Feast of Eleven Joes–Saint Joseph’s Day Zeppole (Sfinge di San Giuseppe)
Biscuits with Strangers
Reinvented Hostess Cupcakes, for the Boy Who Eats Gas Station Pie
A Salted Caramel Chocolate Gelato Emergency
