Welcome back to your own space, Julie! I do so appreciate everyone’s patience, I’ve been working on some technical upgrades, and I’m abominably slow at such things – I’ll blame the blatant nepotism in my high school’s computer science department (I learned NOTHING!). I should update you on my kitchen (mis)adventures though! I made…
Welcome to Sunday Morning Coffee! We survived another week of the new year! That’s awesome. I feel like the news cycle this week was bombshell-heavy, but when you think about it, is this really any different from any other week these days? Eh, probably not. The weather (at least in the Northeast US) seems ……
Last week, I shared some 2018 Cooking Goals I have arbitrarily set for myself – not New Year’s resolutions per se, because really, who keeps those longer than a maximum of ten days? No, they are just goals, just a few kitchen skills I’d like to finally master. I wanted to let you know that…
We have our first Sunday Morning Coffee of 2018! How has it been, being back to the grindstone? Personally, I’m freezing my ass off. It’s all good though! I’m very excited about any and all fresh opportunities 2018 might have to offer, and there’s a stack of cookbooks to be happily explored on my coffee…
At the end of 2016, it seemed like most people were commenting on what a terrible year it was; and indeed, the year ended with one of the most abominable jokes of a presidential election this nation has ever seen. There were hopes for 2017, like, how can this get any worse? And 2017 was…
There are very few first-world problems in this life I find more maddening than the uber-annoying, completely unnecessary rhinovirus – yup, the common cold. Seriously, WHAT is the point. This completely harmless virus hitches a ride into your system via one of your orifices, and can your immune system just leave well enough alone? Oh…
Welcome to Sunday Morning Coffee! Wishing a Happy Hanukkah to all my friends, family, and readers who celebrate it. You’re all making me crave latkes. So I guess we had more celebrity chef sexual misconduct news this week, huh? I’m truly horrified at the stories I’m reading, but glad this dam is breaking wide open.…
It’s here, it’s here, it’s HERE! Only now can the holiday season officially begin. I’ll explain. About three years ago, my husband, who understands my warped sense of humor quite well, introduced me to the writing of Drew Magary, a GQ and Deadspin columnist – or more specifically, he introduced me to the wonder and…
We put up our Christmas tree Sunday afternoon. It’s the first year in our decade-plus of togetherness that we’re using an artificial tree. And I’m pretty sure we screwed it up, because as I type this, I’m sitting on the couch, directly across the living room from the tree, and I can see a near-perfect…
Welcome to another Sunday Morning Coffee, and this one is snowy! We in the good ol’ NJ got a few inches yesterday – they were mostly the really pretty fat snowflakes that everyone except my cat loves (he chases them from the windowsill and feels sad when he pounces at the window and can’t actually…
As all Top Chef fans are WELL aware, the premiere of Season 15, set in Colorado, is tonight on Bravo! We’ve all been waiting and waiting for this, so in celebration of this momentous occasion, I decided to give my review of the franchise by ranking the previous fourteen Top Chef seasons in reverse order…
It’s Top Chef premiere week (Season 15, people!) and yesterday I gave you a Tom recipe. Today, as promised, we have a Padma Lakshmi recipe. And tomorrow is going to be the mother of all Top Chef posts: my rankings of season 1 through 14. I’ve been a loyal TC fan since the pilot season,…
One random Wednesday in the spring of 2006, I woke up with a nasty head cold. Given how contagious these rude viruses are, and that I only had one class that day anyway (I was in law school at the time), I decided to stay in bed and be grouchy all day. I felt like…
The first week back after time off always feels like a cruel slap in the face, and to add insult to injury, we’ve spent this week worrying about tax bills and drowning in shocking (or maybe not shocking?) news of more and more sexual harassment/assault claims against famous men, and then there was the bombshell…
On Tuesday I mentioned having read Hacks by Donna Brazile over Thanksgiving, and that I had many thoughts. I’ve attempted to streamline my popcorn brain to record just a few of them. Then I made nachos and put green veggies on them. Don’t worry, they are amazing and hey, now your mom approves! The book.…
I spent my Thanksgiving break as promised, doing not much other than some light cooking, some heavy eating, and burying my nose in some books I had on my to-read list. Football was on almost non-stop, and pants were considered, like, so overrated. I blew through Hacks by Donna Brazile. I found it fascinating. I…
Welcome! How was Thanksgiving? I feel we still have one more day of long weekend to enjoy some relaxing, and then do we really have to get back to the workweek tomorrow? Kitty says no. Alright, without further adieu, please enjoy today’s offerings! War on Christmas 2017: Fox News Asks If Starbucks Holiday Cups Are…
Well, here we are, the week of Thanksgiving, and Donald Trump has not been impeached yet. Perhaps it was naïve, but I admit, I’d hoped it would’ve happened by now. I mean, I just don’t want to have to live in a world where we have to endure the yearly presidential turkey pardon with ……
Welcome to Sunday Morning Coffee! What a week. Alabama *might* elect a Democratic Senator, many Republicans are actually defending a pedophile, Thanksgiving is early this year (eeek!) and I made a chai butternut squash bundt cake and forgot to put eggs in the batter! Facepalm. No matter, let’s get down to it, shall we? Speaking…
Saturday, August 12, 2017. For me and Matt, it started out normal. Boring, even, as we had no set plans other than maybe eventually getting around to vacuuming the area rug. Of course you, reader, are well aware of how that day progressed, of the senseless tragedy that happened in Charlottesville, VA, and by mid-afternoon…
I must admit, I struggle to understand exactly where we as a society are on the whole Pumpkin Spice Everything Backlash thing. Of course, I struggle with this in the same way that one might struggle to pass an exam they didn’t bother studying for. I’m unsure on the finer points of this argument: are…
Welcome to what I’m calling Sunday Morning Coffee! This will be my weekly round-up of interesting and/or humorous articles I want to share with you, plus recipes you and I absolutely need to make. Why Sunday Morning Coffee? Well, I am what they call an apostate: someone who has abandoned some or all of the…
John Besh. Damn. I did not see that coming. Then again, I’m not in the restaurant industry. My experience working front-of-house for a very casual family-oriented chain restaurant one summer in high school was completely free of untoward behavior by the male employees and customers, and simply left me with a few meager paychecks and…
Welcome to my new blog! As I struggle and attempt to construct this very first post, feeling the high stakes of establishing myself and compelling you to return, I’ve been recalling a section in Tina Fey’s excellent, highly-recommended memoir Bossypants, where she briefly discusses trying to write the pilot of 30 Rock, and why pilots…
