I’m not a fan of cold weather, despite being NY-born and New England-raised. I shiver. I whimper. And when I get home, I often turn to an old-fashioned warm-me-up. And today was the first day of 2011 cold enough to require this treat. One of the greatest things I’ve learned [...]
FOUR YEARS of awesome
FOUR YEARS of awesome
Tomorrow is my FOUR YEAR ANNIVERSARY with the most wonderful, talented, funny, clever, sexy, brilliant, amazing man in the universe. On top of all that, he cooks, too.
Before I met Cristo, I was an extremely picky eater. So here is an abbreviated list of foods that I either refused to try because I assumed they were gross, or else convinced myself that I hated—until I met him:
baking v cooking
baking v cooking
For me, baking is incredibly experimental, with room for great flexibility. When people ask me where I learned this, I simply tell them that “I grew up in my mother’s kitchen.”
the greatest coffeecake in the world*
the greatest coffeecake in the world*
* because Apple Pear Honey-Bourbon Caramel Coffee Crumb Cake is just too long. Last night, I baked something amazing. Riffing on two recipes and a lifetime in my mother’s kitchen, I pulled together an apple-pear coffee cake with honey-bourbon caramel and enormous chunky crumb-topping. The basic coffeecake recipe was from [...]
autumn baking
autumn baking
My boyfriend’s restaurant is a drop-off point for the Enterprise Farms CSA, which means that every couple of weeks he’ll come home lugging a giant box of dirt-encrusted organic fruits and veggies. It’s amazing, and forces us to eat and cook with things that maybe we wouldn’t have ordinarily picked [...]
when a nerd falls in love with a geek
when a nerd falls in love with a geek
Baking the Star Wars Cake This labor of love is also a result of my love for smittenkitchen.com. The cake is Deb’s Best Birthday Cake. It is filled with her Mango Curd and frosted with her Swiss Buttercream, the instructions for which include the directive, “Patience, young Jedis.” As per [...]
a birthday dinner
a birthday dinner
For Cristo’s birthday, I made reservations at Ten Tables in Cambridge — their second location, in the space the original Craigie Street Bistro used to occupy, and which actually has at least 14 tables. The food and service were amazing. Because we ate on a Sunday night, they weren’t serving [...]
Beef. It was for dinner.
Beef. It was for dinner.
Last weekend, I trekked the whole three T stops out to Davis Square to pick up some all-natural, grass-fed, hormone-free River Rock Farms beef from Dave’s Fresh Pasta. I grabbed a pound-and-a-half of London Broil and a pound of sirloin tips. Last Sunday, Cristo took on the finer cut. He [...]
mein burgermeister
mein burgermeister
I promise I’m not turning into yet another food blogger. That said, two days ago, I got a text message from my boyfriend while I was at work. He had an idea in his head for some amazing burgers, and wanted me to bake buns. So I did. I found [...]
bagels!!
bagels!!
Sundried Tomato Bagels and Rosemary Bagels: Everything Bagels at sunset: How’d I do it? With a little help from Smitten Kitchen, naturally.
I made bagels.
I made bagels.
Of course the first thing I do when I have a whole evening to myself is decide to bake something so intense, time-consuming, ambitious, and complicated that it borders on madness. But I got to break out the dough hook for my Kitchenaid stand mixer for the first time! A [...]
This is what love looks like
This is what love looks like
I love to brag about all of the amazing meals my boyfriend makes me here. And I recently realized that I haven’t provided you with nearly enough photographic evidence of all of these gorgeous things. So, here’s the steak we ate Sunday night with pommes frites, and which was followed [...]
a found weekend
a found weekend
I dropped my programming class. And to celebrate, I bought four canvases. I began digging into (quite literally) a massive, sculptural art project I’ve had broiling in the back of my head for months. It’s top-secret for now, but David Lynch is its muse and it may end as half a diptych.
magic soup
magic soup
Last night, my boyfriend wasn’t feeling well; I found him in bed and inchoate when I got home from work. I brought him hot honeyed tea and ice water and let him rest while I worked on a web project, and then I started feeling hungry. He said he wasn’t [...]
