Orange Dinner
Tweet I just made the most amazing dinner for my family. I hate to gloat, but it was pretty darn awesome. First, I made a simple salad of mixed greens, Craisins, sliced almonds, orange sections, and...
View ArticleKirsten’s Home Cooking Adventures
Tweet Kirsten’s Home Cooking Adventures is one of those blogs that is almost entirely devoted to recipes… and I’m thankful for it. Whenever I’m not sure what to make for dinner, I head over to...
View ArticleRice Pudding
Tweet Sometimes, you just need something hot and delicious. I made myself rice pudding on one of those days recently, and of course, when I told my friend, she laughed at me. Aren’t those the days when...
View ArticleSix more weeks… but it feels like spring!
Tweet In 2002, I experienced my first-ever New England winter. According to my Ipswich-native roommate, it was one of the coldest ones in recent history. “Even we don’t get weather this bad,” she would...
View ArticlePaella… Again
Tweet I wrote once before about paella, a while back, but I have to do it once more, mostly because paella in Mallorca, just as it is vastly different from the version my mother makes at home, is also...
View ArticleAccidental Hedonist: Riz au Coca
Tweet I did some investigative cooking recently and attempted one of the recipes from the Mange Mon Geek episodes I posted over at Accidental Hedonist last week. The results? Come check it out…
View ArticlePaella and Cannes
Tweet There’s something really lovely about the beach. Cities are great and I love skiing, but when it all comes down to it, there’s something pretty magical about going to sleep and hearing waves...
View ArticleTomato Paella
Tweet After several years of doing fairly ridiculous things whilst traveling, I’ve gotten to the point where, when I suggest spending the night in an airport/train station/bus stop to make a cheap...
View ArticleJambalaya
It’s easy, when you first move to a foreign country, to over-generalize everything. First, you generalize based on stereotypes, expecting that all French men have a moustache, a beret and a striped...
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