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:
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.”
* 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 [...]
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 boyfriend and I were in San Francisco last week, it happened to be Fleet Week. We flew into SFO ahead of Jeanne’s wedding, picked up our ferry tickets to Napa at Pier 39, and had a few hours to kill before our boat came in. We ate Dungeness crabs [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I love my adopted city, and have often blogged about its changing character. Feel free to explore my Harvard Square.
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 [...]
I wasn’t expecting him. He is John Stewart, Henry Rollins, Bruce Campbell, Anthony Bourdain, and Agent Dale Cooper rolled into one amazing man. He says that I have a wonderful singing voice, and I believe him. He teases me for my goofy laugh and inability to whistle. He cooks me [...]
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 [...]
Sundried Tomato Bagels and Rosemary Bagels: Everything Bagels at sunset: How’d I do it? With a little help from Smitten Kitchen, naturally.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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