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Fun with Breakfast Cereal, Take 2 15 Jul 2013 | 10:03 pm
Once again, I am way overdue for an update around here. I can explain. About three weeks ago, my life turned upside-down. In a good way. On a very rainy Monday morning, I was fortunate enough to join ...
Fun with Breakfast Cereal, Take 1 18 Jun 2013 | 09:59 pm
I got into a couple of interesting discussions on Facebook last week, specifically about an article entitled You Are What You Eat: A Food Blogger’s Dilemma, in which the author, Jamie Schler, laments ...
The Best Thing I Ate in Corsica 12 Jun 2013 | 05:35 pm
You might expect me to wax rhapsodic about the array of sheep’s and goat’s milk cheeses, or gush about the intensely flavorful charcuterie, or rave about the freshness of the just-caught fish, but no....
Eleven Things, Eleven Questions 8 May 2013 | 08:33 pm
My dear – and now many-miles-distant – friend Melissa has tagged me with the Liebster Award, a fun, navel-gazing meme that’s been going around. To start, I’m supposed to share 11 things about myself. ...
Porter Chocolate Mousse 26 Apr 2013 | 08:26 pm
St. Patrick’s Day, 1997. It’s spring break of my freshman year of college. I’m at a party with my boyfriend in his hometown, surrounded by his friends from high school. I’m halfheartedly sipping a Bud...
Paris Pastry Crawl 2013: Chocolate Mousse: Chapon 24 Apr 2013 | 08:45 pm
I knew I couldn’t do chocolate mousse month without a visit to Patrice Chapon‘s shop on the rue du Bac, because the single-origin mousse bar is pretty much the best thing to happen to chocolate mousse...
Beer Brioche 13 Apr 2013 | 12:19 am
Which came first, the bread or the beer? And what happens if you use beer as the liquid in bread? I can’t answer that first question with any certainty, but I can tell you that the second is a worthy ...
Paris Pastry Crawl 2013: Chocolate Mousse Omnibus 10 Apr 2013 | 12:01 am
Perhaps I was a touch ambitious with my plans for the Paris Pastry Crawl. Eating all that pastry is not for the faint of heart, nor is it for people who are used to working in kitchens but now find th...
Beer Month, and the Return of Worthwhile French Beers 3 Apr 2013 | 10:47 pm
Longtime readers of this blog (and pretty much anyone who’s ever met me) know how much I love beer. So when I saw (via the always awesome Jenni, aka Pastry Chef Online) that Sophia of NY FoodGasm had...
One Last Wintry Soup 21 Mar 2013 | 10:07 pm
Lately, I’ve been working on clearing out the stockpile of root vegetables from the CSA in my refrigerator. I turned a backlog of potatoes, turnips, black radishes, parsnips, and leeks into a lovely ...
