Guys, there was this time in Italy that I wanted pizza but instead got gnocchi. The gnocchi was served in this knock your socks off tomato sauce that was so simple yet so flavorful. I remember when it was brought to the table, I was like…. wait, this is it? But it was phenomenal. I’m…
I’m always a big fan of trying to do things myself once or twice – or at least attempting it. For this reason, I have a pile of clothes in my closet that I refuse to throw out / donate because I’m moderately convinced I can hem / alter them myself. I can nearly guarantee…
I guess the upside to the end of the long weekend is that today is Tuesday … and not Monday. I spent much of the time in Maine having lady talks and roaming the rocky coast taking pictures with my friend Sarah. She just got a new camera and so it was amazing to have…
10 points to Maine for scoring a great slogan. I do love Maine and I do love vacation. I’m headed out today for a few days in Maine and realizing that this is my 4th Labor Day that I’ve spent in this particular little heaven. It’s hard to believe at times. I’m not sure what…
I’m not sure if this was the last beach weekend of the summer. It might have been. I certainly behaved like it was the end of wearing bathing suits all day. There was no cooking. Just a fair amount of eating anything I wanted … which oddly didn’t include a single BLT. I got ice…
Earlier this Spring I picked up a few little baby San Marzano tomato plants. I got really excited about “harvesting the crops” from my urban dwelling … and then very quickly lowered my expectations. I decided I would be happy if I got just 1 … maybe 3 of my favorite tomatoes. As the summer…
It’s Monday morning and the weather man told me that today would be a perfect beach day. Sadly, I’ll be sitting in a swivel desk chair for most of the day instead of smelling like sunblock and cruising through magazines. That being said, the weekend was pretty dreamy and including lots of quality time with…
Ever since I made the first galette, I’ve been dying to make another one. While it would have been easy to just make the same-ish version I had already made (I’m still loaded with ice cream), I figured I should take advantage of the seemingly endless supply of tomatoes from my parents garden. While some…
It takes a fair amount to get me to turn on the oven in the summer. I don’t have one of those fancy apartments where the heat tends to stay inside the oven. If I set the oven to 375 F, my apartment tends to turn into 375 F. But, when summer calls for heat…
I had dinner with someone this past weekend who continued to mispronounce quinoa repeatedly over the course of 3 hours. He pronounced it “QWIN-O-WAH” and I pronounced it “KEEN-WAH”. I’m too much of a lady – and fundamentally it made me feel awkward – to confront the situation so we both just continued to reference…
