Posts tagged with: cocktail (83)
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Blackberry Moscow Mule
Ginger beer, vodka, and a blackberry-lime puree make for a wonderfully refreshing and fun cocktail to welcome warmer weather.
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Limoncello
I first found out about limoncello from my sister who essentially described it as a liquid lemon drop that was alcoholic. I was pretty much sold on it right then and there based purely on that description. And then she brought me a bottle from Italy and it sat on a shelf for months. Literally […]
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Mint Julep (Perfected)
No, mint juleps are not just for the Kentucky Derby. It’s a terrible, terrible misconception that they are. First of all, they are made with bourbon. And secondly, they are packed with mint and ice, making them fabulously refreshing in every sense of the word. The sad thing is that it wasn’t until this year’s […]
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Mint Julep
I don’t think I had ever paid any attention to the Kentucky Derby until maybe five years ago when Joseph and I just happened to be in Brooklyn the same weekend as the Derby. We were staying with Mark and Jordan, my brother-in-law and his wife, and they didn’t yet have their two beautiful little girls. […]
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Best Margaritas Ever (Freshly Squeezed!)
Growing up, my family had several traditions varying from reading The Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve to eating pizza and renting a movie every Friday night. Now that my sister and I have grown up and moved out, the big tradition is going to one of our two favorite Mexican restaurants (they’re actually owned […]
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Irish Coffee
My sister sent me an article from the New York Times the other day that lamented the “disreputable image of a mongrel” that Irish coffee has earned itself. What? Irish coffee, a mongrel? Really? I have only the highest respect for Irish coffee, and this was news to me. I figured the very least I could do […]
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Eye of the Dragon (Lychee Martini)
Happy Lunar New Year! The lunar new year may have started on Monday, but the Chinese celebrate for 15 days, so why shouldn’t you? You have plenty of time to kick off the year of the dragon with this lychee martini appropriately named Eye of the Dragon. When a rep from Bulldog Gin sent me this […]
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Cranberry Ginger Cocktail
Between the scent of fresh pine in the air, festive lights everywhere, lots of time with family, and spectacular food, this is just about my favorite time of year. This year has been especially fun because we spent Christmas with my two nieces: Amelia, who is 3, and Sophie, who is just a couple of months old. This […]
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Strawberry Basil Mojito (and a Giveaway!)
Of the three drinks my sister, brother-in-law, and I made when I visited them, this was the unanimous favorite. While we really enjoyed the peachy keen and the watermelon-cucumber refresher, this is the one that we just couldn’t stop talking about. It all started with the perfectly ripe strawberries from the farmer’s market (it’s always […]
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Peachy Keen (Peach + Bourbon Cocktail)
Ok, so I already shared the Watermelon-Cucumber Refresher, which is the first drink that I made with my sister and brother-in-law from DIY Cocktails, and now I’m jumping to the third and last drink (I’m saving the second drink for my next post because once you try it, you may just forget about all other […]
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Watermelon-Cucumber Refresher
So, as I mentioned last time, I received a copy of DIY Cocktails to review. The book is full of beautiful drinks and flipping through the pages, the list of things I wanted to try grew exponentially. We loved the piña coladas, but why stop there when there are so many other things to try? The problem […]
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Piña Colada
Yikes, I could sure use one of these right now. Work has been nuts, I’ve been out of town for the last several days, and I recently found out I have to have knee surgery again (I already had knee surgery on my other knee almost 4 months ago) and it’s scheduled for next Friday! […]
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Pomegranate-Champagne Punch
My absolute favorite of the four things I made for the bridal shower was this punch. For starters, I just love sparkling wine. It doesn’t matter if it’s Champagne with a capital “C” from Champagne, or champagne with a little “c” from New Mexico, or if it’s Cava, Prosecco, red, white, rosé, whatever, I love […]
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Key Lime Pineapple Citrus Martini
Do you ever have that perfect storm when you have random ingredients that you don’t normally have and it suddenly hits you that you can make something fabulous by combining them? Last Sunday afternoon we sitting around taking it easy and enjoying the nice spring weather. Joseph suggested a drink on the porch, thinking of […]
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A Weekend of Food Love
One of things that I really love about Joseph is that we both really enjoy and value food. It’s not enough just to like food, to like to eat it. Who doesn’t like to eat? To be the man that I’ll spend the rest of my life with, he has to really appreciate what went […]
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Barbecue Chicken Pizza
I love condiments. I slather a ton of mustard on my burgers, I like lots of ketchup with my fries, but barbecue sauce has always been my favorite. When we were kids and my parents took us out for dinner, we almost always ordered chicken tenders. It worked out perfectly because they came with a […]
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Guacamole
It seems to me that almost every conversation about guacamole has at least one or two people claim that they make the best guacamole ever. I mean, the thing about guacamole is that it is always pretty darn delicious. But, not to toot my own horn or anything, I’ve had several people try my guacamole […]
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Chocolate Stout Cake
Want something a little more grown up for the Super Bowl than brownies? How about chocolate stout cake anyone? Now, this is for the more sophisticated crowd since it does kind of require a fork and plate. I know, we’re just getting highfalutin over here! But it does seem pretty fitting for a football game, […]
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Chewy Brownies
My sister specifically requested a recipe for a Super Bowl dessert and at first my mind drew a blank. Thinking of main courses and appetizers are so easy (turkey burger, spicy sweet potato fries, turkey chili and corn bread, smokey chipotle salsa, guacamole, and chips are just a few), but desserts? Well, chocolate came to mind really […]
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Spicy Sweet Potato “Fries”
Who doesn’t love a good sweet potato fry? I know that given the choice at a restaurant, I will never pick regular ol’ fries over sweet potatoes fries. They’re just so irresistible! They’re sweet, salty, and oh so addictive. This recipe takes sweet potato fries to the next level. Now, I have to warn you, […]
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Joseph’s Turkey Burger du Jour
I was vegetarian for several years and ate enough veggie burgers to keep Gardenburger and Boca in business. Then, when I was eating poultry again, I went on a business trip to Atlanta and a coworker ordered a turkey burger. I was sort of shocked by the idea (turkey??), but since after about 10 years […]
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Chicken Piccata With Lemon, Capers and Artichoke Hearts
This is another one of those recipes that I fell in love with before I had even tried it, based solely on the ingredients. It’s got wine and lemon (two of my favorite things) and they’re accented by briny capers and artichoke hearts. The chicken gets pounded, making it extra tender and juicy. In fact, […]
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Chipotle Chilaquiles
We concluded our week of Rick Bayless recipes with the recipe that first introduced us to the genius of Rick Bayless: chipotle chilaquiles. I didn’t even know what chilaquiles were until we went to dinner with our friends, Christina and Adam, about a year ago. They made served us this spectacular green stuff unlike anything […]
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Creamy Corn Soup With ham and Roasted Poblanos
The next recipe in the lineup from our week-long celebration of Rick Bayless is a wonderful, creamy corn soup. In the recipe, Bayless says that you can use either chicken or ham and ham just seemed like an obvious choice to me. Of course chicken would work wonderfully, but I really liked the idea of […]
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Smoky Chipotle Salsa With Pan-Roasted Tomatillos
I LOVE this salsa. It’s amazing how 4 little ingredients make something so good. The chipotle chiles give it a smokiness, the tomatillo lends it some tang, and then the roasted garlic…well, it’s roasted garlic!! Fantastic. I poured it all over my red chile chicken and rice with black beans, it would be great over eggs, […]
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Red Chile Chicken and Rice With Black Beans
For as long as I can remember, black beans and rice has been one of my favorite dishes. I went to this awesome bilingual daycare in DC when I was really little and every Friday we got black beans and rice. I lived for those black beans and rice…. When I was 19, I spent […]
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Chipotle Shrimp
This is a Rick Bayless week for us. On Sunday we sat down to figure out what we wanted to make for the week before heading to the grocery and we surrounded ourselves with a bunch of cookbooks. Somehow every single recipe we decided on ended up being from Bayless. I guess because it’s been […]
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Spicy Garlicky Cashew Chicken and Chilled Sesame Spinach
There are some recipes that you know you’re going to love just by a quick glance at the ingredients. This is one of those recipes. Cashews, with their rich, creamy, salty nuttiness are one of my favorite nuts, I love cilantro and I love, love, love garlic. And if you ask me, almost any dish […]
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Pumpkin Pecan Waffles
After a night out at the Publick House eating every morsel of the awesome macaroni and cheese and drinking amazing Belgian beers (Rochefort 10, I will love you forever) and then coming home and eating I’m-not-saying-how-many-slices of cranberry upside-down cake, it just seemed prudent to have a healthier breakfast the next morning. I had wanted […]
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Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
Last Friday night the Aggies were playing their bowl game and my intention had been to make this cake because the Aggies colors are maroon and white. But between going to the gym, going to the grocery store, making dinner and then a wine and beer tasting at Spirited Gourmet, well, it just didn’t happen. […]
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Curried Lentil Soup
Ok, I promised you something healthy after all those cookies and here it is. Believe me, it’s worth the wait. I found out about this recipe from my friend, Anne, who is an incredible cook. After every amazing meal that she cooks everyone oohs and aahs over her creations and she always, always responds by […]
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Chocolate Shortbread Fingers
Ok, here’s my last cookie-type-thing for you for at least a little while. I promise to share some healthier stuff with you soon. But I thought you’d enjoy these. It’s a great recipe to have on hand because you’re likely to already have everything you need to make them and they’re easy to make to […]
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Chocolate Hazelnut Crinkle Cookies
Wait! Hold off on that New Year’s diet resolution! I still have two cookie recipes to share with you! I know, I should have gotten them in earlier, it’s just been such a busy holiday season. For years and years, we always made the same cookies for the holidays (such as the forgotten meringues and […]
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Toast the New Year With Pomegranate-Rosemary Royale
Joseph and I drove from Boston to DC for the holidays and decided it would be fun to bring our cat, Snoopy, with us. After 3 hours of yowling, she finally settled down and slept for the rest of the trip. Still, it was a long trip and we were thrilled when we finally pulled […]
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Forgotten Meringues
My family has many Christmas traditions and one of my favorites is the forgotten meringue. It’s called the forgotten meringue because you whip up the meringue, form cookies on a sheet, and put them in a preheated oven and turn the oven off, and then forget about them until the next morning. You then begin […]
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Triple-Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
This is a new Christmas cookie for me and believe me, it’s going to find a place in the Christmas cookie rotation from now on. It has not one, not two, but three kinds of chocolate: semi-sweet, milk chocolate, and white chocolate. Now, I was initially wondering what the point of buying milk chocolate was […]
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fruitcake cookies
I just spent the weekend baking holiday cookies and have so much to share with you! I’m beginning with my dad’s favorite: fruitcake cookies. My mom has made these cookies for as long as I can remember but I’m not sure I ever actually tried one until 3 or 4 years ago. They’re packed with […]
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Chocolate Glazed Gingerbread Cakes
Ok, I know, I know, it’s been way too long since my last post. But believe me, this recipe should (somewhat) make up for it and it’s just in time for your holiday parties, dinners, etc.! I came across this recipe from Martha Stewart a few years ago and love to make it for guests. […]
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Healthy Mac and Cheese (aka Mac ‘n Squash)
Running out of Thanksgiving leftovers? Trying to squeeze in some healthy food to make up for all that pie and stuffing? Well, look no further than this lightened up version of mac n’ cheese. I should tell you up front that this mac n’ cheese is not going to be the same as the ooey […]
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Pumpkin Pie
As much as I love pumpkiny foods, I’ve never really been a big fan of pumpkin pie. I guess it’s the texture (so mushy). But it such a classic Thanksgiving dessert that I figured I should make one. I was also inspired when I found this recipe when flipping through Joanne Chang’s new cookbook at […]
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Apple Crumb Pie
I don’t know exactly how old I was (10ish?), but I still remember standing at the kitchen counter trying to roll out my pie dough and my grandmother guiding me through this process that was proving to be so much more complicated than I had thought it would be. I’ve made an apple pie every […]
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day(s) of feasting
Thanksgiving morning began with individual monkey breads – monkey bread that my mother-in-law made in muffin tins so we each had our own piece of gooey, warm, sticky monkey bread to pull apart and devour. It was the beginning of a magnificent day of feasting. Thanksgiving dinner included a ridiculously succulent turkey; stuffing; a butternut […]
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Apple Cider Cake
The way food disappears at my office, you’d think that we don’t ever get fed. We had a Thanksgiving feast for lunch on Monday, with the office providing all the turkey and sides and employees supplying the desserts. There was so much food that I was sure this time people would be full and that […]
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Tres Leches Cake
When a coworker’s going away dinner became Mexican-themed (all because another coworker said she was bringing tequila and no one could argue with margaritas), I figured I should make a tres leches cake. I had never made one before and a few people mentioned that they had heard they were difficult to make, though they […]
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Chicken a la Veracruzana
Joseph is on this great kick where he’s trying all these slow cooker recipes from Rick Bayless’ Mexican Everyday. It’s wonderful. Slow cookers are great because you just throw stuff in the slow cooker and then several hours later you open it up and there’s your meal, hot and succulent, just waiting to be ladled […]
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Pasta With Butternut Squash, Sage, and Pine Nuts
Ok, so clearly we’re really into fall foods. We just can’t stop buying butternut squash. One Monday night when we had a butternut squash lying around waiting to be eaten, I saw this recipe on the kitchn and thought, perfect! A quick Monday night dinner and we have all the ingredients! The problem was that […]
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butternut squash and sage soup with sage breadcrumbs
Ok, so here’s another butternut squash soup that you have to try. I think Joseph and I actually liked this one better than the last one. The sage is a really nice flavor and the breadcrumbs give it a little texture and a lot of richness. Possibly too much richness. I think I won’t add […]
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Cinnamon Apple Macawhoopsie Pie
So the time had finally come for me to make my own macarons, which Joseph was reminding me on a regular basis. He had seen a recipe for cinnamon apple macarons on Dessert for Breakfast that look absolutely amazing. I kept pleading with him, saying that we should probably start with something a little much […]
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Pumpkin Pancakes
Ok, it’s Friday morning so you have till the end of the day to make sure you’re stocked with ingredients for these pancakes because, trust me, you’re going to wake up Saturday morning and want pumpkin pancakes. If you’re anything like me, you’re set already because you’re so excited about pumpkins this fall that you […]
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Apple Butter
I love fall foods so much. I have so many great memories of getting apple cider and making apple pie growing up. Apple stuff just reminds me of my childhood. I’ve always loved apple butter, but I had never considered making it until last year when I was suddenly curious how hard it would be […]
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Spicy Cauliflower Soup
Like I’ve said before, I think cauliflower gets a bad rap but it can be quite deliscious when prepared well. I was excited to see a cauliflower soup recipe in Alice Water’s The Art of Simple Food because soup weather is in full swing and how can you go wrong with Alice? For the first […]
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Baked Chicken Meatballs and Spaghetti
It’s amazing to me how quickly fall came. It’s like it was 90 degrees one day, and 50 the next. I like fall a lot, but I hate how short it is. But when it cooled off, I was thinking about food (as I very often do, especially when I’m consoling myself over the weather) […]
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Thai Basil Chicken
My boss got me a subscription to Cook’s Illustrated last Christmas and I love it. The first recipe that we made from the magazine was this Thai basil chicken dish and we’ve made it many, many times since then. It’s juicy, it’s spicy, it’s garlicy, and it has Thai basil. I first fell in love […]
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Butternut Squash Soup
Ok, so I know how long it’s been since my last post. Don’t worry, I have been eating, I’ve just been out of town a lot (including an amazing food and wine festival in Disney World!) and have been really busy. But I do have some great things to share with you (just wait for […]
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Quick and Easy Cornbread
Growing up I loved corn bread, but rarely actually got the good stuff. You see my mom, as wonderful as she is, is convinced that the best corn bread is just cornmeal mixed with water. She may have put some other stuff in there, but that’s pretty much what it tasted like. Her early years […]
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Turkey and Bean Chili
I didn’t watch much football growing up, but for several years close family friends would come over to watch the Superbowl with us. My mom would make a huge pot of chili, a salad, and brownies ahead of time and she and Amy, the mom of our friends, would go out to get dinner and […]
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Adam’s Margarita
This fantabulous margarita recipe comes from my brother-in-law, Adam. Since it uses a frozen mix it’s ridiculously easy. I occasionally feel like I need to look up a recipe to make the whole thing from scratch, but why bother when this one’s so good and so easy?
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Maple Cookies
Ok, so I may have totally failed my sister’s Apple Day, but we definitely did a nice feature of maple between the maple-mustard pork and the maple cookies. Yup, we used a lot of maple syrup for that meal and it was oh, so good. I already told you how good the pork was, but […]
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Maple-Mustard Pork Tenderloin With Caramelized Apples
As long as I’ve known my sister (i.e. my whole life), she’s been replete with ideas both good and bad. For example, when we were kids she liked to play “chef” and take random ingredients in the small kitchen at our after school program and “cook” (or rather, mix) them and then serve them to […]
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fresh arugula and tomato fettuccine
I am so excited to tell you about this dish. My sister and brother-in-law gave us a pasta roller attachment for our KitchenAid mixer and I’ve been itching to try it. But we’ve been going out of town nearly every weekend and it didn’t seem wise to try to tackle it for the first time […]
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Ginger-Miso Halibut in Shiitake and Edamame Broth With Soba Noodles
While we were in DC celebrating my Dad’s, Joseph’s and my birthdays, my mom wanted to cook a meal together (well, my dad’s very helpful participation was on the cleaning up side of things). Joseph found a striped bass recipe on epicurious.com that looked pretty good. My mom had some beautiful halibut already, so we […]
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macaron colorwheel
Ok, I’ve been terrible about posting. It’s been such a busy summer with nearly every weekend out of town and I admit, I’ve totally slacked off on the blogging. The good thing about all the traveling (besides seeing friends and family!) was getting to try more macarons! If you’ve been following pixelated crumb at all, […]
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Rhode Island Calamari
Calamari is one of those foods that garners all kinds of reactions from people. Some people are appalled by the mere idea of it (“it’s squid!!”), some people are only ok with it if it’s deep fried, some people are only ok when it’s cut into rings and they do no want to see the […]
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Zucchini Pasta With Almonds
I mentioned before that my sister had sent me a zucchini pasta recipe super similar to a Smitten Kitchen recipe that I was already planning on making. My sister raved about this recipe from Cooking Light, so I had to try it and see how it compared. The recipes both share all the same key […]
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Roasted Pork Loin With Parsley-Shallot Sauce
Want a quick, relatively healthy, but really nice meal? Look no further than Ellie Krieger’s roasted pork loin with parsley-shallot sauce. Joseph cooked the pork while I prepared the roasted cauliflower (yes, I know I got the easy part). Joseph used Thomas Keller’s technique of searing the pork before putting it in the oven to […]
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roasted cauliflower
I love roasted veggies. Already delicious vegetables get a sweetened lift and and tender bite in a hot, hot oven. If you’re not a huge cauliflower fan, you’ve got to try them roasted. The olive oil, salt, and pepper bring out of the best of cauliflower and just a pinch of nutmeg lends the slightest […]
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zucchini lemon pasta
There are a few food blogs that I check pretty regularly, but hands down my favorite is Smitten Kitchen. When I saw this recipe of hers there was no question about whether I was going to make it, it was when. You see, I love any quick simple pasta that involves lemon. Oh, and […]
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Thomas Keller’s Caramelized sea Scallops
Joseph insisted that instead of going out for his birthday, he wanted to make a nice meal at home and break open a bottle of wine that we brought back from our honeymoon in Napa last year. One of the restaurants that we went to on our honeymoon was Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc (French Laundry […]
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macaron expédition
Remember my search for a macaron that rivaled the one I got in France? Well, I hadn’t given up the search, but until this past weekend, the only other macarons I had tried were the ones from the River St. Whole Foods in Cambridge. They were good, fine, whatever, but not worthy of their own post. Luckily […]
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Shrimp Tacos With Tomato, Radish, and Habañero
Ok, it’s been a while since I’ve shared a recipe and here I am sharing another Rick Bayless recipe, also from Mexican Everyday. This is the perfect summer meal — nice and light, crisp, and refreshing. These tacos do pack a bit of heat from the habeñero, which is considerably spicier than jalepeños, but nothing […]
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Blueberry Pickin’
When we came to West Branch Pond as kids, my sister and the kids of our close family friends often went blueberry picking. It always made me think of Blueberries for Sal, one of my favorite books, and I was always on the lookout for a mama bear and her cubs. We never saw them, […]
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Mmmm S’mores
The West Branch Pond staff didn’t cook all our meals on our Maine vacation. Oh no. We made our own s’mores thank you very much. And since I haven’t shared a recipe in a while (because they really did cook everything for us), I’m sharing the s’mores recipe with you :). I was so busy […]
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west branch pond
So the real reason for our trip to Maine was not the blueberry beer, but to go to West Branch Pond Camps to hang out for 3 1/2 heavenly, relaxing days with my parents, sister, and brother-in-law. This is the kind of place where the most difficult decisions you’ll be faced with are whether you […]
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Fisherman’s Catch
We may have just gotten back from our trip to Europe, but we decided it was time for another vacation (if only life could always be like this). We started our trip to Maine right after work on Thursday and worked our way up to Greenville where we were staying the night before heading to […]
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Clover Food Lab
I was excited to see the feature on Serious Eats on the Clover Food Lab truck over by MIT because friends had just told us last week that we needed to check it out. That was all we needed to convince us to ditch our plans to go to the gym and head on over […]
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Healthy Carrot Zucchini Muffins
Remember that carrot cake I made last week? And how much I enjoyed shoving carrots down the shoot of the food processor? Well, I went overboard on both the purchase of carrots and the shredding of carrots. The carrots I didn’t shred were perfect for the Chicken in Escabeche of Caramelized Onions, Carrots, and Jalapeños. […]
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Fettuccine with Creamy Red Pepper-Feta Sauce
Joseph and I love to have the ingredients around for this pasta from Ellie Krieger because it’s fast, easy, relatively healthy, and the ingredients keep for a little while so you don’t need to make it right away. In fact, we got the ingredients before our trip to Europe a few weeks ago and didn’t […]
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Chicken in Escabeche of Caramelized Onions, Carrots, and Jalapeños
My main contribution for this dish was eating it. Yes, that’s right, Joseph did all the work and I came along, snapped some photos, ate it up, and now I’m writing it up here like I have some ownership of it. That’s what marriage is for, right? The recipe comes from Rick Bayless’ Mexican Everyday. […]
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Quick and Easy Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins
My husband knows me pretty well. The other day I was going to bake a carrot cake for a coworker’s birthday and I also wanted to bake something for a picnic and Shakespeare in the park the next night. At first Joseph thought this was a great idea and then he got this look in […]
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The Carrots Make It Healthy, Thank You Very Much
Everyone always seem to think of carrot cake as being healthy. It’s the nice little illusion those carrots give. Veggies in your dessert! Can you even call it a dessert? No, better off calling it a side! If only. This is one of the more unhealthy cakes that I make (why hello, 2 cups of […]
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Travel Highlights
People who know me well have asked what our favorite food finds were on our trip to Budapest, Prague, and Vilnius. Some people go to museums, we go to restaurants. I think Joseph and I agree that the best thing we had on the entire trip was probably the Parmentier de lapin a la moutarde […]
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Macaron Macaroon
Walking through the streets of Paris is so like a kid in a candy store. I was drooling outside of every shop we walked past. I was especially excited by this beautiful window display with all these beautiful, colorful little confections. I only vaguely knew that they were called macarons and I was confused because […]
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4 Hours in Paris
A no/low carb diet sounds about as appealing to me as giving up air. When I was a kid, I once asked for another piece of bread with dinner and my mom gave me a choice: another piece of bread OR dessert. I LOVE dessert. From the very bottom of my heart, I love baked […]
