NYC-based food blog featuring [mostly healthy] recipes, restaurant recommendations and how-to's
This past weekend, Rene and I finally hosted our official housewarming party/his belated birthday celebration. To have all our friends over, mingling, laughing and drinking all night, in a place that’s all our own, was worth the wait and as awesome as was expected. Being an adult definitely has its advantages! Instead of serving chips…
Baba Ganoush is a tough sell: it has a weird name, its muted brown color (not the, say, festive green of guacamole or red of salsa) can be sort of unattractive, and it’s made from burnt eggplant. However, if you have reservations about eating this traditional Middle Eastern dip, you’re just gonna have to forget…
A few weeks ago, Rene and I met up in Greenwich Village on Friday night with no particular plans in mind. Strolling through what happens to be my favorite neighborhood in the city, we passed Buvette. I’d tried going in there several times before but the wait for a table was ridiculously long and ain’t nobody got…
Even Better With an Egg is a series dedicated to my personal aspiration to turn every meal into brunch. Arriving home after a tiring day of work a few weeks ago, I was really looking forward to a warm dinner and a cold beer, and decided to make a quick vegetable pad thai. Upon taking…
This soup was supposed to be a clean-out-the-fridge kinda dish. I needed to use up an open container of vegetable stock, some sweet potatoes and dried out bread, and decided to make roasted sweet potato soup. I didn’t mean for it to be a “blog recipe” but it turned out to be one of the…
