Do you ever feel like you’re here but you’re not really here? I don’t know, this week has been sort of like that for me, in a good way mostly, since I felt completely disconnected from my duties. It feels good sometimes not to care. Usually, if I don’t post for more than 3 days, […]
Told you I had another savory shortbread recipe in the works. Of course since I was abroad last week and apparently when I’m on vacation I go dumb, I forgot to schedule this post, even though I left feeling pretty confident everything was in order. So you’re getting this this week instead! No hard feelings. […]
Today is a pretty important day around me; first my amazing girlfriend is getting married, and you know how you always say “she’s getting married to greatest guy on earth”? Well this time it’s actually true. He’s the first friend’s boyfriend I became friends with (and not just “hey, you’re here, I’d better talk to […]
This is not strictly speaking cilantro tabbouleh, it’s more like a pretty standard parsley tabbouleh with cilantro added. Get it? Good. I wouldn’t want any confusion as to the parsley to cilantro ratio, that could get awkward. It’s easy here: it’s 1:1. I’ve had a lot of pretty mediocre tabbouleh in my life, considering that […]
I’d been dying to make savory shortbread for months, but as life often goes, I ended up stalling, and then making my grand entry into the savory shortbread world with a homemade recipe. Somehow, last weekend, it just felt right. I still have gorgonzola shortbread in the back of my head (it’s been stuck there […]
I finally made my New York cheesecake. I took me a while to figure it out, but after making cheesecake for several years, I got what was wrong with every single recipe I followed: they didn’t involve 5 whole packages of cream cheese. That’s the clue to a towering cheesecake, that’s the key to my […]
I’ve had my eye on this salad for the better part of a year but of course, when I found out about the glorious combination of avocado and strawberries, strawberries were not in season. Damn produce, always have to follow their schedule. So I waited, and it was worth it, and now when I bite […]
I had been craving raspberries. Fresh raspberries to be more specific. I needed to make a cake for work — that happens. I thought: “Hey! Let’s make a raspberry cake!” Life sounds so simple sometimes. I was so happy to finally have a reason to buy the overpriced raspberries that had been eyeing me on […]
My posts have been few and far between around here, and the truth is I don’t even have an objectively good reason for this. True, I was abroad last week and without an internet connection, but that had happened before, and never prevented me from posting regularly in the past 13 months. Maybe the magic […]
These were originally called pumpkin cheddar muffins, but I live in Paris (news flash) and I didn’t have the heart to run to the nearest British grocery store to get extra sharp cheddar. I’m still amazed at how hard it is to find certain staple ingredients of foreign cooking in a city such as Paris. […]
