How do you celebrate the peak of succulent, vibrant fruit and vegetable season here in New England or elsewhere? With big salads, ripe fruit straight from the bowl, quick, heat-minimizing simple preparations? How about eating a peach at work, and it’s so juicy, you realize it’s obscene and you may get fired for lewd behavior? [...]
Read more →Living in an urban environment makes it hard to feel really connected to the food you eat. When I first moved to Boston, I frequented Haymarket, rain, snow, or shine. Haymarket filled a great void for cheap produce in my early years of cooking, but now that I have a little more money to spend, [...]
Read more →Next time you grill don’t forget to put those citrus halves on the grill for extra flavorful juices! Also I saw a neat tip in a Food and Wine Magazine that i want to try out. Next time you are grilling shrimp, fish, or any type of seafood, put some white wine in a spray [...]
Read more →Don’t you just love Thursdays? With just one day until the weekend, it seems like anything goes. When I was living in Jamaica Plain, it was all about the late-night Milky Way dance sesh (until they changed locations and became the “Lame Way”) but now that this crow has made a nest in New York, [...]
Read more →Last Thursday I unintentionally made dinner from items that were all purchased at the Brigham Circle Farmer’s Market or picked from my back porch. Of course this would exclude olive oil salt and pepper, maybe some day I will be blessed with an olive grove, salina, and pepper vines (?), but for now those extras [...]
Read more →I always welcome a trip (home) to Portland,OR. While this one was short, (only 1 night!) My mom, sister and I still managed to sneak in a meal at what is, in my opinion, the best restaurant in Portland. Like many Portland restaurants, the menu at Veritable Quandary changes with the seasons, as they feature [...]
Read more →Get a load of these beauties! I think it’s safe to say that everyone has tried a lettuce wrap of some sort at one point or another in their lives, but let me tell you, these puppies are super easy, and fresh crisp and delish! With just a few simple ingredients, they’re fun to make [...]
Read more →If I am blessed with some leisure time on Sunday, meaning that it’s not spent traveling back to the Bean, then I love to make some type of hearty salad to munch on during the work week. Since I did not have ample time on Sunday, my work week prep took place on Monday and [...]
Read more →Usually, a Saturday night out in Portland Maine for me means closing the bars down in the Old Port then sneaking over to Sangillos to make their last call. This past weekend I switched things up a bit and had a low key evening of sipping craft beer, tasty wine and munching on salty snacks [...]
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