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…
Even Better With an Egg is a series dedicated to my personal aspiration to turn every meal into brunch. When I first thought of this series, I tried to recall dishes I’ve had in the past that could’ve used a little extra oomph. Garlic tomato fried rice from Bunker Vietnamese came to mind almost immediately. I remembered…
When transitioning to a mostly plant-based diet, there’s this unspoken misconception that you’ll be stuck eating salads three times a day for the rest of your life. This pretty much sounds like a death sentence - but, the more you get into it, the more creative you become. When I first started modifying my diet…
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…
Prior to making arepas (South American fried corncakes) this weekend, I had never had an arepa. I’ve heard aproned ladies shout “Corn arepas!” at street fairs before, but never ventured so far as to try one. However, being partial to all corn-based foods - tortillas, papusas, corn bread - I’ve been interested in making them…
