Crabby Heaven
Having recently become a part-time resident of NYC ‘s Upper West Side—so recently, I don’t even know if it’s correct to capitalize those words—it has become my personal quest to zero in on what this...
View ArticleT.K.O. Cookies
As I staggered out of J. Crew at Rockefeller Center today I saw, on the other side of the skating rink, an establishment that was the weary midtown shopper’s equivalent of a drinking fountain in the...
View ArticleCheese Pecan Biscuits
When people drop by unexpectedly, it’s nice to be able to offer them a refreshment of some kind, like, say, tea and biscuits. When I say “people,” I mean, of course people you know. Do not let just...
View ArticleThe Bee and Thistle Inn
I’m making a lot of trips to Connecticut these days, to visit elderly parents. In so doing I’ve discovered a quaint corner of coziness called The Bee and Thistle Inn, a B&B and a comfort zone in...
View ArticleSummer Quenchers: The Lemonade Variations
I’ve got this Meyer lemon tree in my yard that is dripping with fruit. With a sudden burst of culinary energy (for some reason I’m channeling Rachael Ray) I am doing a lemon project this week, finally...
View ArticleSassy Sliders
A couple years back i reported to you on a prize-winning, record-setting burger that weighed in at over 210 pounds. Well, apparently that record has been obliterated, shattered, knuckle-dropped,...
View ArticleTuesday Pasta
This is the sort of recipe that you come up with when you are too lazy to go to the market to buy real ingredients but you have to eat so you make something up based on the limp contents of your...
View ArticleFootball Lover’s Bean Dip
It’s time to celebrate the football season! Well, actually, if you are like me, you pretend to celebrate the football season, when what really drives your excitement is the excuse to eat the food...
View ArticleJessica And The Chocolate Factory
I went into Edelweiss Chocolates in Beverly Hills, not to buy chocolates but to buy their white Jordan almonds which I always keep handy in a silver sugar bowl. “That’s it?” the lady behind the cash...
View ArticleFlourless, Dairy-free and Delicious Pumpkin Cake
So it’s Thanksgiving and you’re already irritable just thinking about the cooking tasks that lie ahead of you. You wish that it was your sister-in-law who was the one cooking, as usual, but she is...
View ArticleJenni’s Ice Cream
I stumbled into Gastronomie 491 on Columbus Avenue after hours of pre-turkey shopping and there was an angel there handing out samples of Jenni’s ice cream to exhaustoids like myself. For those of you...
View ArticleSnowmageddon Dosa
Okay, so after all that prepping I did (described here in case you had something better to do than read my previous post) for what de Blasio said would be the end of the world last week, I was pretty...
View ArticleOn Your To Do List: Eat A Pomelo
I had it on that list I have titled, “Things to do on a really slow day.” (As opposed to others I keep handy like my “To do when you have a ten minute window” and “To put off as long as possible”...
View ArticleCCC’s Twisted Sister
You’ve eaten too many chocolate chip cookies in your lifetime. In the last year alone, you have had enough of them to satisfy the dessert needs of an entire state, say, Indiana, for a week. And that...
View ArticlePTSD (Peas Trigger Scott’s Distemper)
A few weeks ago I got an email from my bother-in-law Scott who was in a highly agitated state. He told me he had been the victim of fraud perpetrated by the Bird’s Eye Company. It happened on a night...
View ArticleKleen Queen (Green)
After the flood of 2015, I had some serious kleening up to do. Unwilling to spend a week inhaling Lysol fumes, I knew I would have to consult with the Great Counselor Of All Things for advice on a...
View ArticleHow To Stuff A Wild Zucchini
My younger daughter recently outed herself as the culprit in the zucchini mystery of 2007. One evening while poking around the linen closet I found a mummified slice of zucchini under a stack of beach...
View ArticleHip Jam In Silver Lake
If you should find yourself visiting a much-more-hip-than-you relative in the much-more-hip-than-where-you-live section of L.A. called Silver Lake, stop in at a wee restaurant called Sqirl. It’s worth...
View ArticleBeside Myself
I’m cooking on Thanksgiving, and my mom says she is bored with turkey as it is too often served in the dining room of the senior community where she lives. For her, it’s all about the sides. So I’m...
View ArticleCreamy Dreamy Vegetale Soup
I know there is a school of cooking these days that’s all about hiding vegetables in things so you can sneak up on your kids, nutritionally speaking. But I feel the way my mother does: children should...
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