Monthly Archives: April 2012
The Monday Treat – Space Kids Hit Manhattan fueled by Blueberry Pancakes
A friend of mine had been to Space Camp as a child and had described the experience as “absolutely no question the best week of my life, made up of the best days of my life!â€
Posted in The Monday Treat
Tagged blueberry, Empire State Building, Jess, Kids, New York, pancake, Space, Space Camp
Leave a comment
This Dinner Will Get You Laid – One of the greatest things I ever overheard in a restaurant, and lamb with herb pesto
Tables in New York restaurants are often crammed close together, so even though you might be having a romantic evening with your husband you can still listen with ease into the conversations to your right and left as though … Continue reading
Posted in This Dinner Will Get You Laid
Tagged date, dinner, gangs, overheard in new york, tattoos
5 Comments
The Wednesday Tipple – Ginger Fizz and diversification
Diversification is the new buzzword of our economic times. Several of my friends now run Etsy shops, stringing beads onto lengths of cut up t-shirts, designing wedding invitations or cross-stitching obscenities by night while PRing, publishing and producing commercials by … Continue reading
Posted in The Wednesday Tipple
Tagged diversification, fizz, ginger, hobbies, jobs, lemon
Leave a comment
The Monday Treat – Vanilla Almond Cake to keep spirits up
“Good morning!!†beamed the guy behind the counter at Pain Quotidian, as I struggled to summon the words from my sleeping brain to convey that I needed a lot of coffee. “Are you having a great day?!â€
Posted in The Monday Treat
Tagged almond, cake, comfort, happiness, spring, vanilla, vegetarian
Leave a comment
This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Adobo Pork Fillet and recognition on the subway
Returning from a choir rehearsal on the subway late last night I discovered quite by chance an amazing fact; my husband is a bit of a celebrity.
Posted in This Dinner Will Get You Laid
Tagged adobo, celebrity, cumin, maps, oranges, pork, tenderloin
Leave a comment
The Wednesday Tipple – Maiden’s Blush, Stilton Crackers, and something to blush about
Our lives and the lives of our friends are currently divided into the Haves and Have Nots: people who paid the extra for HBO, and people who rely on the goodness and charity of those people to invite them over … Continue reading
Posted in The Wednesday Tipple
Tagged biscuit, blushing, cheese, coyness, fantasy, Game of Thrones, gin, Grange disks, grenadine, pernod, shortbread, vegetarian
Leave a comment
The Monday Treat – Brown Sugar Meringues and a few useful pointers about Baby Showers
A lot of the time, I feel like a New Yorker. I will argue with you over where to get the best slice in the city. I often tut at the slowness of pedestrians. I once saw a rat try … Continue reading
Posted in The Monday Treat
Tagged baby shower, brown sugar, cream, girl friendly, meringue, pavlova, raspberries, vegetarian
4 Comments
This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Chicken Caesar Salad and life lessons
It was my friend Molly’s birthday this week. She turned 25 and celebrated with whiskey and an origami competition in a dive bar on the lower east side. By 10pm she was in reflective mood, looking back over her quarter … Continue reading
Posted in This Dinner Will Get You Laid
Tagged 25, anchovies, Caesar Salad, chicken, dating, life lessons
2 Comments
The Wednesday Tipple – Chocolate Cranberry No Bake Cake and Vin Santo
Excitement in the Physics department. Christine has acquired an automatic stapler. Put the papers near it and it staples. Hands free. “It’s literally the Most Amazing Thing I Ever Saw,†said Jon, a man who spent the last couple of weeks … Continue reading
Posted in The Wednesday Tipple
Tagged chocolate, chocolate cake, cranberries, vin santo
Leave a comment
The Monday Treat – homemade ricotta – way easier and more fun than you’d think
Making cheese sounds like the kind of cooking project other people do. I live a few blocks away from Murray’s cheese. Why would I make my own? But ricotta is a different beast.