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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – linguini with lemon and crème fraiche – the antidote to hotheadedness
It’s been a roasting hot sticky week in New York City. The kind of weather that makes people sleepy, then stupid as night falls and the temperature drops to merely baking.
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Tagged balcony, creme fraiche, date night, dinner, easy entertaining, hot weather, lemon, lingiuni, pasta, theft, vegetarian
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The Wednesday Tipple – Elderflower Gin Jellies (and homemade elderflower cordial)
In retrospect, it may not have been a good idea to open a bar tab at the hotel for my sister and I when we were kids.
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Tagged bbq, cocktail, elderflower, Fairies, gin, granita, hot day, lemon, Sarah, tipple, tonic, Victoriana
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The Wednesday Treat – Tom Collins, and a side of cupcakes
Is there any way to eat a cupcake outside the context of a birthday party without feeling just a little bit Sex and the City?
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Tagged cupcake, gin, lemon, Sex and the City, soda, tom collins, writing
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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
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Tagged diversification, fizz, ginger, hobbies, jobs, lemon
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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.
The Wednesday Tipple – Because apparently we’re all Wild Irish Roses on St Patrick’s Day
This is the time of year when people who were born and raised in Michigan by parents who were also born and raised in Michigan claim to be Irish.
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Tagged Accent, cocktail, grenadine, Housing Works, Irish, lemon, shuffle, soda, st patrick's day, whiskey, Wild irish Rose
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Chicken with Lemon and Thyme, when dinner has to deliver
There are times when we all want to make a good impression. Look like our best selves in a good light on a good hair day, be at our smartest, our wittiest, our most charming. Or, failing that, simply not … Continue reading
The Wednesday Tipple – a Steadier, for frazzled nerves and catastrophe
One of my first jobs was working as a runner on a hidden camera prank show. The kind where the producers convinced paintballers that they were being recruited for MI6 so the television viewing public could laugh at them. Basically, we messed … Continue reading
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Tagged bitters, brandy, drama, lemon, lost tapes, steadier
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