Recently, my cooking slumped. I slouch around the kitchen, exhausted after work; I rely on old standards and My Steady Gentleman Caller. Dishes pose an existential crisis. The majority of interesting foodstuffs coming out of the kitchen result from the efforts of My Gentleman, and aside from breaking in the Kitchen Aid with VBar for [...]
Read more →Even though lobsters are available year round, their consumption is most commonly associated with summer. Partly because summer is notorious for over indulgence, but the REAL reason why lobster is so tasty in the summer is because that’s when you can get the soft shell, and my person fav, the chicks. Chicks are the smaller [...]
Read more →Check out this amazing article in the NYT style section today on preserving fruit in alcohol rather than canning. The crows do an awful lot of booze-fruit eating in the summertime when we fancy-up our white wines and simple cocktails with a little fruit garnish to be munched on at the end of the drink. [...]
Read more →As the days of farmers markets begin to dwindle i feel so lucky after each visit, hoping that it won’t be my last. Squirreling away the items i think will last the longest such as potato, onions and garlic, dreading for when I will have to pay for them in a check out line. This [...]
Read more →A couple of Thursdays ago (yes it has been some time since my last post) the JP Crows had the pleasure of attending the once a month Sam Adams open house. The open house is far superior to the free Sam Adams tour because it occurs on a Thursday evening (usually a prime party night) [...]
Read more →Sigh. Let me start this out with a little personal statement. As it may be possible to surmise from my pathetic lack of posts recently, this summer has been absolutely insanely, pull-your-hair-out crazy/busy/chaotic for me. This summer I have started a new job and been promoted, become engaged and started planning a wedding, begun the [...]
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