“Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t [...]
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You know what happens when you have an imaginary food processor and a dysfunctional blender and set out to make a recipe that calls for processing four cups of herbs into a near-paste? Well, you dutifully pluck all those little leaves, then shove them into the aforementioned blender, add some scallions, and an hour later [...]
From Elmo Even Elmo can’t get a bailout. From Elmo I was walking through the park after a thunderstorm and I found him, drowned in a puddle. From Elmo It’s a sad day when a muppet is allowed to fail. p.s. I did see the same Elmo at a stoop sale a week later, resurrected [...]
From food A while ago, I made a flock of 2.5″ two-layer chocolate cakes (from this recipe, the best I’ve ever tried), stacked with raspberry jam, coated in chocolate ganache, and topped with pools of jam. They were delicious, they were adorable, they were eaten before I took a picture. I was left with lots [...]
From food What do you do with one banana as ripe as this one? I couldn’t make banana bread because that requires at least two bananas, and I didn’t want to eat him because he was nearly liquid but I also didn’t want him to die an inglorious death. From food So I started making [...]
My darling boyfriend is away for the month, and while I miss him terribly, I am enjoying cooking just for myself. Amir is allergic to a number of raw fruits (anything that crossbreeds with birch, which is everything), meaning he cannot eat apples, cherries, pears, peaches, plums, etc, etc, unless they’re lightly cooked. He also [...]
I woke up this morning to a torrential thunderstorm and I lay in bed, trying to return to sleep, counting the seconds between the flashes of lightening and the answering thunder. From food I’m now eating homemade graham crackers dipped in tea, a perfect rainy day breakfast, or any day breakfast if you ask me. [...]