Birthday dinners are rather important. I’m not saying they need to be fancy – but there needs to be thought behind it. I’d be perfectly happy with a pizza for my dinner because then it’d be about the atmosphere or getting to binge watch my favorite shows on Netflix while we ate. But, one of…
Cooking in the summer is not for the faint of heart. Cooking in the threat of summer is almost worse. See, technically we are on the tail end of summer… it could be hot one day or not at all. But since the threat is still alive, I still need to think about whether it…
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…
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…
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…
You may or may not have noticed that I haven’t been cooking …. pretty much at all. There are probably a few reasons for this of which none are really valid. Sometimes an english muffin just feels right and sometimes I don’t feel like doing dishes and sometimes it’s just too warm out. For example,…
This is a story of how I killed the yeast and brought it back to life. There is only one picture of the entire thing because I was quite convinced the entire time it was a slow moving car accident. Over the past few weeks, I have been attempting to purge my apartment of things…
