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Happy Saturday, everyone! I’m unexpectedly in Connecticut for a couple days to lend a shoulder to my best friend. I believe there will be some wine and chocolate involved later tonight; those plus some vegetables would certainly comfort me. When I arrived at my parents’ house, I discovered that they already had dinner plans at a restaurant, [...] As my cooking skills have developed, I’ve come to truly enjoy preparing dishes for others. Where I view cooking to be a relaxing, therapeutic process, I know many who find it taxing and stress-inducing. My sister (and roommate) is one of those people. Most evenings, I offer her a description of the dish I’m dreaming [...] This fall, I will be a bridesmaid for one of my best friends, who is engaged to a man from India. The two of them are excellent chefs, often preparing meals inspired by their Italian and Indian roots. Like me, they have an experimental spirit in the kitchen, rarely opening cookbooks or abiding by the [...] I hope everyone enjoyed their fourth, if you were celebrating! Mine began peacefully with some of this: And ended on a less tranquil note with some of these:
It’s all about balance. After journeying on a packed train back to the city (in the company of apparently every other inhabitant of the island), I was craving something [...] This past weekend, my mom brought me the largest cucumber I have ever seen. I remember someone in Israel telling me that American produce scared him, and cucumbers should be small and eaten whole, not engineered to the size of a baseball bat. Enter the bat: This afternoon I used part of it in the most [...] |
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