It’s mid-Winter and I find myself perpetually daydreaming of trips to much warmer, cheerier places than where I am right now. Talk about a metaphor for life, right? The inability (or unwillingness) to be in the present moment; the always looking back or looking forward; the discomfort or anxiety we feel when we’re not doing, […]
I wasn’t planning on writing another post before I leave for Mexico, but this soup came out so well, and its ingredients are so fleeting, that it would be shameful not to share it. It was inspired by a cup of spinach, parsley, lemon soup with sour cream that I tasted at Soup’s On, my […]
Happy weekend! Here is a recipe for the springiest of springtime recipes, rhubarb vanilla cordial. I shared this illustration last year on The Great Kosmic Kitchen blog, but thought it worth revisiting with the warming sun and coming new moon upon us. Enjoy!
I remember my mom making jars upon jars of strawberry preserves when I was a kid. The preserves would be dark and sweet, and there seemed to be an endless supply always stocked in our basement. She didn’t use any other jam for our pb&j’s – only these preserves would do. As an adult, I […]
As I write this blog post, I’m waiting for Indian food to be delivered. This might sound strange to most people, but for me, ordering take-out is a luxury. Food at restaurants costs a lot more than making food at home, and D.C. is especially bereft of affordable dining options. By “affordable,” I mean a […]
Like usual, Mom was outside, dressed in her well-loved shorts and bleached baseball cap, dirt rimming her fingernails and staining her knees. She was in a fierce battle with the crabgrass and wild spring onions that threatened to choke her irises and rose of sharon. When she called out, I ran to the front of […]
Near the tip of the Eastern Shore, that tongue of land that juts down the side of the Chesapeake Bay, there sits a small barrier island nestled between salt marshes and the sea. Until relatively recently, Chincoteague Island was home to oyster fishermen, wild ponies, ice cream parlors and not much else. My family has […]
There is something deeply satisfying about cutting into a salad with a knife. I was turned on to knife and fork salads when I dined with Clementina of Open Door Dining, a supper club in DC hosted unceremoniously in her living room on a long barn table. Clementina is Italian through and through, from the fashionable […]
The summer after I graduated college, I lived in the spare room of my friend A’s house in West Hollywood, working at Huckleberry Bakery & Cafe in Santa Monica and volunteering at a Middle Eastern cultural center in Hollywood. I graduated in 2009, the year after the financial crash, and the “real job” that I […]
This weekend marks one month since A and I moved into our new home. HALLELUJAH. Nothing like a homemade pie to celebrate. After work on Friday, I walked myself over to Petworth’s first farmers market of the year. And you better believe I snatched up the last of the rhubarb before any man, woman, or […]
