The beginning of spring break was mostly devoted to knocking out a few wedding to-dos that were bordering on overdue. We made some pretty big strides and are pretty happy [and excited!] about the results. Honeymoon = Booked: We’ll be spending five weeks in Europe. We’re flying into Madrid and [currently] planning: Madrid –> Barcelona […]
I hypothesized in all seriousness last night that I would weigh around 95 pounds if I had a peanut allergy. I don’t think I meant it as a joke… peanut butter is my biggest weakness. Unfortunately for me, it’s also a monstrous glob of calories. Now, they’re not the worst kind but they’re certainly not the […]
I used to live across Tompkins Square Park from 7A Cafe, an awesome restaurant, bar and brunch spot in the East Village. It was the site of many a meal, caraffe of wine, or late-night snack [it’s 24 hours! love] throughout my years at NYU. Before I became vegetarian, one of my go-to sandwiches was […]
Christina Tosi’s “Mother Dough” recipe appeared here and here over spring break [drool], and made a return last night in another post-run creation by Shaun. Yesterday’s 11-miler was rough at times. The [freakishly] warm temperatures threw us for a loop, I was in a bad mood because I couldn’t get my GPS watch to do […]
Guess who’s back? The e-vet called this morning around 8:30 to let us know Grady kept food down all night and we could take him home. He’s on strict bedrest for the next two weeks and has so many pills we actually made a Google document with a schedule, but at least he’s in our […]
Shaun and I were feeling pretty optimistic yesterday afternoon. We spent the day walking around the city to kill time until we had to pick Grady up. I think we covered six miles, at least. We stopped in a new bike shop, explored Main Street, and generally enjoyed the weather. Grady’s doctor called around 4 […]
Thanks for all of the sweet comments and messages about Mr. Bear. I spent the night sleeping on the floor with our 90-pound puppy, and he was anxious as ever. He got very upset the moment I would start to doze off and stop petting him. It was heartbreaking. I think both Shaun and I had […]
A few weekends ago when we stopped at The Market at Bellair for sandwiches, a bag of fresh english muffins from a local bakery caught my eye. I’m not a big bread person and can’t think of the last time I ate an english muffin, but these muffins looked perfect. I thought about them for […]
It didn’t take me long to answer my question from the last post re: what to do with the rest of the Mother Dough. Clearly, the best option for snow day dinner was cozy and filling home-made pizza with Italian wine. We used to make pizza with store-bought dough [they make it fresh for you […]
In her Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook, Christina Tosi describes a trip to France and her first experience with what she will later name a “Volcano” as follows: We found a bench outside and unwrapped this mound of bread that looked like it had some sort of creamy gravy inside. Still half-asleep, we [Christina and David […]
Ryes and 'Shine 