Last weekend was the annual lobster bake at the mountain house, a tradition started years ago by a group of work friends, which we were not, that grew to include families of those friends, which we are, and for which we are now tremendously grateful to be a part of. The weather was practically perfect, [...]
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Wheeee! I made more biscuits! And I totally confirmed my suspicion that the coconut flour (and prevalent coconut flavor) can be pushed in one direction (sweet and delicious!) or another (coconut, what?!) depending on the additional ingredient combinations. Here’s your starting point. For savory biscuits, I swapped out the coconut oil for unsalted butter, removed [...]
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(For more on this once-and-future series, see this post. Or find all the harebrained episodes via tag in the sidebar.) Alternate title: What I’m Eating For Lunch Today (with homemade gazpacho) That Is Rocking My World. There’s no need for exposition, the food speaks for itself. We’ll start with the eggs. Plenty of people have [...]
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Dammit, August. I was trying to simplify. Relax. Enjoy the moment. Stop recording life and try living it. But then you had to go and be awesome, and I have no record of it for The Posterity. There was great cooking (despite the so-called x diet), family vacations, beautiful beer money (what?!) and of course, [...]
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(For more on this once-and-future series, see this post. Or find all the harebrained episodes via tag in the sidebar.) It’s a new dawn of eating and food preparation in our household. Cynically I call it the x diet, where x is anything I want but can’t have. Dairy free, gluten free, sugar free. There [...]
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(For more on this once-and-future series, see this post. Or find all the harebrained episodes via tag in the sidebar.) I love fish tacos. My friends love fish tacos. My friends still eat fish tacos (or any tacos, actually), but alas, I do not. Too many empty calories in the common taco delivery system, be [...]
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It’s been over a year since I posted my Food Rules. Not much has changed (in fact, there are a couple new things I should get around to adding), but I do have a confession to make. I don’t hate all cake. Apparently. I make an exception for my sister-in-law’s homemade german chocolate cake with [...]
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(For more on this once-and-future series, see this post.) You’ve been to Nicky’s, right? You’ve tasted the absolute best tom kha soup in the city, of course. Oh, good. We can still be friends. My always-meal at Nicky’s starts out with That Soup, followed by the grilled beef mint salad and accompanied by a pot [...]
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My dad’s birthday was Saturday. A big birthday. We had a steak and eggs brunch to celebrate, and I offered to make the eggs. (My dad, of course, made the steaks.) All week I thought about what kind of eggs to make, and all week i came to the same conclusion: steak+egg casserole=too much food. [...]
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Passover happened. Yeah, I know. Old news. Wanna see what I made anyway? This year I took care of the potato dish, something I rarely make since I’m usually only meh about potatoes. I opted for a potato kugel, and luckily my friend Emily Levenson had a recipe I could use as a base. The [...]
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