Archive for January, 2007
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007My husband gets paid on the last day of the month. And before that, during the last week of the month, cooking becomes an exercise in la cucina povera. We’re (almost) never really broke broke, but broke enough that I’d rather look deep into my pantry rather than go out to the store or […]
Love, (Italian-)American Style
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007During my (very brief) stint as a classic poor college student, I would head over to my grandparents’ house about once a month, to be fed and/or do some laundry. My grandmother, in ever-declining health, wasn’t up to cooking the foods she used to make when I was a kid (a subject that richly deserves […]
It’s (Oceans) Alive!
Monday, January 29th, 2007This’ll probably wreck any food blogger street cred I may have, but I must reveal I have never cooked fish of any sort, ever.
No, wait — I take it back.
I steamed some shrimp for a shrimp cocktail once, sometime around 1998.
Don’t get me wrong; I enjoy fish — in a restaurant. But as far as […]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007Can’t. Stop. Eating. Cupcakes.
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Requiem for a mug.
Friday, January 26th, 2007Friends, we gather here today to celebrate the life of my Voor de Liefste Mama! coffee cup.
We first met when my brother-in-law returned from several months in Holland, and presented it to me on my first official Mother’s Day.
At the time, my husband I were living in Florida with his parents. Within the past year, […]
Well, I’ve made it three weeks so far.
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007Three weeks (and two days) and I haven’t flubbed any of my 2007 resolutions. You’re impressed, right?
I’ve been keeping track of the resolutions I made for the year with the goal-setting-slash-social-networking site 43Things. I’m not going to share the whole list (although if you’re stalkerish enough, you could probably find me) but here’s my food-related […]
Today is Blonde Brownie Day!
Monday, January 22nd, 2007According to Practically Edible, January 22nd is Blonde Brownie Day — although it seems more obvious to call it Blondie Day. (Maybe there’s some sort Blondie holiday already I don’t know about. And if not, my official proclamation is that there should be: every July 1st, commemorating Debbie Harry’s birthday.)
“Blondie” versus “Blonde Brownie” aside, who […]
Where I live. A photo essay. Sort of.
Thursday, January 18th, 2007I’ve realized recently that for being in New York — where everyone loves to talk about their neighborhood (or the neighborhood of their dreams), I don’t post a lot about the neighborhood I live in.
I live in the upper part of Washington Heights. Not in the area often called Hudson Heights — I live on […]
How to reverse engineer gezellig:
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007The last time we went to Holland, my husband and I both got really nasty sick halfway over the Atlantic. It was the worst gastro-intestinal virus I’ve had in years, certainly, if not ever — and we spent the first 48+ hours of our trip in bed, shivering and miserable.
When we finally felt well enough […]
Hmmph. I don’t know whether to tag this “bitchy nerd” or “nerdy bitch.”
Monday, January 15th, 2007I don’t know if I have more or less respect for Top Chef’s host Padma Lakshmi after discovering this:
On one hand, she was on Star Trek… but on the other hand, she was on Star Trek: Enterprise, the crappiest of all possible series.
And really, the more I think about it… “spoiled alien princess”? Wow. Way […]
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