I like to call people up on their birthdays and sing to them. So someone call me up and croon a little tune, because this blog is FIVE YEARS OLD! And I just can’t believe it. Naturally, to mark the occasion, I baked a cake. Because what good is a birthday celebration without cake? Happy birthday […]
Have I mentioned my obsession with open-face sandwiches? This broccolini melt is so amazing on so many levels. Not only is it full of bright green goodness, for which your body thanks you, but it is savory and cheesy and garlicky and a little lemony…in short, it is delicious. All delis should throw out their […]
My husband has been asking to make cheese danish for years. You’d think I would have taken him up on that right away! I love to bake. I love to be bossy in the kitchen. I love cheese danish. But for some reason, I felt intimidated. Do you ever feel paralyzed by the desire to […]
The summer after I graduated from high school, my best friend and I started a weekly ritual we called “wife practice.” We decided to learn how to cook, something our mothers had been trying to teach us for years. We spent hours making peanut pork with cellophane noodles and potato crust quiche and French silk pie. […]
Yesterday, Jake decided to read all of my cookbooks. He pulled pretty much every single book off the shelf, one at a time, to ooh and aah over the glorious photos and recite every single letter in every single recipe title. That kid. Adorable. Somehow in the middle of this, I developed a hankering for peanut […]
It may surprise you to learn that I don’t actually eat a lot of vegetables. I can go entire days without a vegetable, if you don’t count the tomato sauce in pizza. The problem obviously isn’t that I don’t like vegetables…I love them! The real problem is that I am busy and tired, and preparing […]
Do you ever just have a really bad day? Like a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day? This has nothing to do with falafel, really. I’m just whining. I have been sick for several days. Like the kind of sick when everything in your body suddenly revolts all at once, where you have a […]
I know you are probably getting sick of sweets from me. And I was all geared up to share a few simple savories…but then I realized it’s going to be Valentine’s day very soon. And I have a long tradition of covering you in chocolate for Valentine’s day. Chocolate is, after all, one of my first […]