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Go Try Mâche Salad

This is my new favorite lettuce and I am predicting it will be the next big thing in lettuces. Even though it may not seem like food could be trendy, foods are just as trendy as anything else!  Remember when smoothies were a big thing? How about when wraps were all the rage? Individual foods [...]

Pastries in Cloches.

In my imagination, I am running a well oiled machine of a household. The table is set with a gourmet, local dinner every night. Guests are met with perfect cocktails and home made pastries upon entering, and are instantly awed by my talents.

In reality, I cook twice a week. We routinely run out of basics [...]

The best Hammentashen ever.

Lately, I do all my baking when it’s raining or snowing. Since Purim is around the corner, today we made Hammentashen. You dont have to be Jewish to enjoy these really awesome jelly filled cookies.

This is the best Hammentashen recipe ever. Look no further. Taken from the Deal Delights cookbook.

Ingredients:

4 eggs

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 cup oil

2 [...]

Strawberry Trifle

I’m making this for a bridal shower tonight. Yummy. There are a billion different ways to make them, I chose Giada’s, except I am not making individual trifles.  Let’s see how it turns out.

Ingredients
Marinated strawberries:

1 quart fresh strawberries, halved
1/3 cup aged balsamic vinegar

Whipped cream:

3 cups heavy cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
1 (1 pound) fresh pound cake
1/3 [...]

Roman Holiday Cookies

Last year, we had a massive snowstorm and my friend Caroline came over and we baked all day and watched Roman Holiday. Now whenever its too yucky to go out and you have to stay home and bake, I think of it as a Roman Holiday. Today I’m trying these Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies from [...]

If you are in NYC…

For the NYIGF (aka heaven and hell in one gigantic catacomb), you are in luck. NYIGF blissfully coincides with Restaurant Week, which is really 2 weeks where you can eat basically anywhere in NYC for a flat fee of $35 dollars per person for a 3 course meal. I use it to try new restaurants [...]

Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner.

(I needed to reward you all for reading all my long posts with no pictures.)

Food, Defined.

Remember a few weeks ago when I explained that I was investigating FOOD and had no idea what to eat?

Well, its like Michael Pollan read my post, because he just put out a little book called:

Food Rules. An Eater’s Manuel.

JUST what I asked for!!!!

You can read it in about 15 minutes and its filled with [...]

Make this for dinner, eat it all weekend.

My mom and grandma taught me how to make the best chicken soup ever. Its still in its elementary stages in the photo above.

Its definitely that kind of a day, and I feel  like I might be getting a little sick… Plus I make chicken soup every friday and we eat it all weekend!

Ingredients:

Im not [...]

Our government is retarded.

A man tries to blow up a plane in the last hour of a flight. Hence, no one can move for the last hour of a flight from now on. Who is that going to fool?

I was actually going to write about this anyway, because I have been reading up on the food industry in [...]