Despite my love of grocery stores and cooking, there is something incredibly appealing about how meal delivery services package and send their meals. After getting about one million offers in the mail, I decided to try out Blue Apron recently. I was in a bit of a cooking lull and it was only $30. While…
Probably about 6 years ago, I made my first chicken tagine. I’ve always reflected positively on that meal. The flavors of a tagine are just incredible – and really all without my favorite sins of salt, butter, or cheese. I tore out this chicken tagine recipe from Real Simple relatively recently and got around to…
For like the last 10+ years I’ve made Irish Soda bread each year for St Patrick’s Day. I’ve really pared back the baking in recent years – but there were some years that I shipped out 8 or so loaves. This year I think I only have 4 loaves on my list – and one…
I think sometimes when people think of banana bread – they get this visions of a dense banana loaf with nuts. While that isn’t a terrible thing by any standard, it’s always nice to try something different. Let’s give banana bread a refresh. Maybe it’ll be the new scone? Probably not. I was home sick…
One of the best parts about living in the North End was being close to Haymarket. While the produce was not always amazing, being able to buy bargain priced vegetables was amazing – especially for soup. Appearance does not matter when you are putting blending that right up. Soup tends to be a really affordable…
I’ve had a range of “Valentine’s Day” experiences in my life. There was the elementary school obligatory valentine’s cards for everyone. The classic college boyfriend (who lasted for two weeks) who gave me roses. The time I was dating someone new I cared about… who didn’t want to celebrate because a combination of “work” and…
Eating healthy? So complex. I’ve never really watched what I ate all that much because I’ve always been just active enough that it hasn’t been critical. Yes, it’s always advisable to not eat chicken fingers every Friday night but when I was walking 5 miles a day to and from work… I could do what…
We’ve had a couple snow days this week – and apparently in the coming week too. Snow days mean many things like cozy clothes and binge marathons on tv. But if it’s a work day, you don’t get to binge tv … and need to compensate with other things. I chose to compensate with this…
I keep calling this the “Ina cake” but it could also be called by its actual name – Devil’s Food cake. But honestly, I’m always going to call it in the Ina cake because it’s from Ina Garten’s latest cookbook that I got for Christmas. I made this cake on a weekday for my mom’s…
I really love Auntie Anne’s pretzel bites. Like, while I never hope for a travel delay… the only upside is that I can treat myself to pretzel nuggets in South Station. There are some downsides to buying pretzel nuggets. One? It costs $4. Which isn’t exactly crushing but it is when you consider its a…
