Walking between the annual meeting at a historic private school around the corner and the social gathering in our lobby, I had occasion to inform a couple of neighbor/friends: “What didn’t kill us made us meaner.” Luckily, there was so much pent-up social demand the rest of the evening was pretty engaging. I, being anti-social, […]
My consort always says you could set the atomic clock by my remorse, and he’s definitely right about my cookie regret. It’s coming up on three years that I have been baking nearly every week for a neighborhood church’s free-lunch program, and I really wish I had kept track of all I’ve done. I use […]
Three years ago or so we were taking our sweet time with everything in the kitchen, given that we could only leave our apartment once a day cuz the Bible-thumpers’ tent set up across the park from us was such a grim reminder that breath was spreading death. Meals had to expand to fill endless […]
Twitter is real life, but apparently I can still step away long enough, once in a while, to cook a turkey dinner even though very few plates will be filled cuz #pandemicaintover. I did the big bird, the mashed potatoes, the gravy and the pumpkin-thyme rolls I always do the same way I always do […]
That was the Tweet on my mind on rushing into the kitchen after a late-afternoon outing to the Guggenheim (the Alex Katz lure was amazing, the Nick Cave bonus blowaway) and realizing I had not left enough time to do the proper pasta prep I’d promised Bob at the Greenmarket this a.m. when he wanted […]
In one of the last months before the world spun off its axis, we ate out 15 times. (I know because a friend in London emailed for restaurant advice and I had plenty at hand, neither of us understanding what fresh hell lay ahead.) I doubt we ate out that many times for the next […]
Everything is a blur anymore, to the point that I went out and bought a bag of coconut for a recipe I’d flagged in a cookbook from the library, Cookies: The New Classics, by Jesse Szewczyk. Only when I read “spread the coconut on two baking sheets” did I remember I had made those same […]
As I keep Tweeting, you need real self-restraint to walk through a Greenmarket this time of year — Nature is a mean mom, putting so much in season all at once. I always hold off on buying the esoteric hard squash next to the heirloom tomatoes, though, and the next thing I know only butternut […]
We finally got it (& I got it twice, with the Paxlovid rebound the doctor we couldn’t get in to see warned), so I’m half-reveling in writing off any mistakes to aftermath issues with a disease even the most forward-thinking scientists don’t understand. Good friends invited us to dinner and I insisted on bringing dessert […]
I’ve undoubtedly said this before, but my consort always used to jokingly suggest turkey tetrazzini as a destination for Thanksgiving leftovers & then I started taking him seriously. We’ve since both conceded you cannot go wrong with mushrooms in cream, so when we had leftover tuna steak this week I just said the T word […]
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