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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I’ve been traveling a lot for work lately. Last week was Chicago, next week is Baltimore. All great trips, but it really hits home how much I love my family when I’m away from them for a couple (or more) days. On top of that, we’ve been so busy already this summer with camp and [...]
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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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(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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We tried to go to Burgatory Bar a couple weeks ago. The wait (on a Friday night) was close to two hours, so we passed. The hostess that evening suggested we try a weekend afternoon before 5pm, so on Saturday we stopped by after Avi’s soccer game. She was right: we walked right in (mostly) [...]
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We went out for brunch on Sunday morning. Like out. To a restaurant. It was delightful. And we walked! From our house!! Clearly I am so excited by this potential that I’m speaking writing in clipped non-sentences. But I do long for a more walkable neighborhood, even though we have vastly more accessible by foot [...]
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I’ve said before that this is clearly not (exclusively) a food blog. Just look at the sidebar to see the giant “Avi Bear” and you’ll know right away I tend to write most about the kiddo. But that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy having a single place to document my cooking processes and calculated nutritional [...]
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Yesterday, my brother and his family, our parents and my family all met to take the kiddos to Schramm’s Farm, continuing a tradition that began when we were kids ourselves. This morning, as I was working from home before Avi’s parent teacher conference (verdict: rockstar) I got a delightful email full of photos that highlighted [...]
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As I said on my public account last night, I had an evening all about cooking and eating. I met up with Lauren and saw @cookingforgeeks at the Waffle Shop (thanks to Meg from Table & Spoon for putting that together). I also ran into Emily at the event, which was a lovely bonus of [...]
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