NYC-based food blog featuring [mostly healthy] recipes, restaurant recommendations and how-to's
Portlandia is a weird show. Correction, when I first saw Portlandia, I thought it was a weird show. But now that I’ve faithfully watched three seasons, I realize it is absolutely brilliant. If you’ve never seen it, it’s a sketch comedy TV show created by (and starring) Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. Together, they play…
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…
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…
Let’s face it: cauliflower is kind of a reject vegetable. When has anyone ever said, “I really wish I could have some cauliflower right now.” That’s right. Never. Maybe because it looks like discolored broccoli, or its sorta funky smell, but people just don’t seem to love it. It recently gained some traction with the…
Firstly, thank you all so much for your awesome comments on my last post! I’m so touched by all the positivity coming my way. Secondly, I’m very excited to tell you about this purple cabbage slaw! (It’s definitely not normal to be this hyped up about a salad.) I had a head of purple cabbage…
