Before we moved, Shaun warned me the new kitchen was “tiny.” When I saw it for the first time, I realized I had a lesson or two to teach him about center-city apartments: the kitchen is not “tiny” by city standards. I was actually impressed! But in my excitement, I forgot about the elephant in […]
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 […]
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 […]
The key to a good lettuce wrap is a firm lettuce. I’m usually fond of napa cabbage for wraps, but Shaun found this romaine lettuce at Whole Foods that we couldn’t pass up. It made long wraps, but delicious ones. It certainly doesn’t hold a candle to the Fu-Q BBQ at Barbeque Exchange, but it’s definitely […]
Monday at a coffee shop, I was approached by a friend: “What classes are you taking that you get to read fiction?” The beauty of 3L. Thanks to my light reading load, I was able to forego trademarks in favor of finishing the following: I’ll get to the schoolwork eventually, but I couldn’t put either of […]
Back in Asheville, Shaun stopped at Bruisin’ Ales to pick up a few beers to “age.” After finishing his copy of Brewed Awakening, though, he discovered that some beers are best consumed immediately – namely, those with lots of hops. Thus, it became his mission to create a meal centered around Brooklyn Brewery‘s Sorachi Ace so he […]
Avocado does not sit well once cut into [even if you paint its open side with lemon or lime juice] so I had to cook with the remnants from Shaun’s zucchini casserole, and fast. I only had to search my recipe archives for about ten seconds before I figured out what to do: “Creamy Avocado Pasta” from […]
I’m not sure who was on our side Tuesday night, but it was someone awesome. Shaun and I finally claimed victory at Fellini’s Trivia Night. Woo! We were always the trivia underdogs: the team of two against tables of six. But last night was made for us. Two of the four categories were “Weight Loss” […]
Special thanks to an extended stay at Shenandoah Joe’s yesterday, I finally finished The Corrections and quickly moved through two other short pieces. The Corrections had a way of drawing me back in just at the point[s] I was ready to throw it off of a cliff with an awesome passage, but all-in-all I think the awesomeness was […]
Let’s be honest, a good deli sandwich rocks. The LSAT course I took was held in the hotel next door to the Carnegie Deli… some pretty gnarly sandwiches were consumed. Carnegie had a bangin’ mayo-free tuna salad sandwich, awesome veggie wraps and mile-high paninis. Let’s just say I was sufficiently carbed up for a large […]
Ryes and 'Shine 