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…
I think one of the best things about getting older is that you know more about what you need and where to get it from. I like to refer to this as “building a team”. I’ve been building my team for 30 years now but not really realized it until quite recently. I know now…
Turning 30 is different things for different people. I’ll be honest and say that I haven’t always had the easiest time adjusting to the impending threshold. Initially, it made me feel like I should have more accomplished. Five years ago, I would have expected that by 30 I would be married and probably have a…
Like I said last week, I haven’t really been cooking. I’ve even been habitually buying lunch – which is just really not me. After all, I did eat crockpot pomegranate chicken for like 9 work days last summer. I’m dedicated to the cause of saving a few bucks each day. But tonight, I felt a smidge inspired…
Not many things have seemed worthy of a whole post… but the cumulative effort of the last month or so has been pretty great… in an uneventful way. Which is just fine by me. It’s a lot of prosciutto eating, skyline gawking, and rolling on the floor/lawn with a new family puppy.
