11
November
Austria: They have the meat
Yes, you can get a vegan hummus wrap in Vienna but why would you want to when you can have a big old platter of…
Austria: They have the meat
Yes, you can get a vegan hummus wrap in Vienna but why would you want to when you can have a big old platter of…
Rise and shine in Austria
Breakfast is quite a different affair outside the United States. In Austria, it’s simple, restrained and delicious. So a word before we get to the…
Grazing at the Naschmarkt
We are just back from Austria and I am immeasurably sad. They (whoever “they” are) say that travel changes you. It changed me. Life is…
Filet Mignon with Mushroom Cream Sauce
I am embarrassed to say that I figured this out completely by mistake. In general, I shop at all the wrong grocery stores. Yes, my…
Salted Butter and Chocolate Chunk Shortbread
Remember back in the day when the Neiman Marcus chocolate chip cookie recipe became infamous because it was falsely stated that a woman who asked…
Roasted tomatoes
Somewhere around the beginning of September, I commit heresy. I admit, barely above a whisper, that I’m sick of tomatoes. I remember wistfully those first…
4
November
Rise and shine in Austria
Breakfast is quite a different affair outside the United States. In Austria, it’s simple, restrained and delicious. So a word before we get to the…
3
November
Grazing at the Naschmarkt
We are just back from Austria and I am immeasurably sad. They (whoever “they” are) say that travel changes you. It changed me. Life is…
7
October
Filet Mignon with Mushroom Cream Sauce
I am embarrassed to say that I figured this out completely by mistake. In general, I shop at all the wrong grocery stores. Yes, my…
29
September
Salted Butter and Chocolate Chunk Shortbread
Remember back in the day when the Neiman Marcus chocolate chip cookie recipe became infamous because it was falsely stated that a woman who asked…
13
September
The Waffle House Index
As Hurricane Florence slams into the North and South Carolina costs, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is monitoring a vital disaster tracking service: The Waffle…
8
September
Roasted tomatoes
Somewhere around the beginning of September, I commit heresy. I admit, barely above a whisper, that I’m sick of tomatoes. I remember wistfully those first…
1
September
Olive oil cake
The top search for a dessert on Food52 is not a chocolate torte or peanut butter cookie or apple pie. It’s an olive oil cake….
28
August
We might starve (again)
“I wish I could go in a grocery store,” the Princess said plaintively. Her mother, my beloved daughter-in-law Tammy, does drive by grocery shopping from…
17
August
The best crab cakes
The most perfect crab cake I ever had was served with a side of misery. I was in Wilmington, Delaware, interviewing for an upper management…