• About emily

    The Story of Miz Emily

    Told by VBar

    Miz Emily, crow extraordinaire, hails originally from Connecticut and moved to Boston for college in 2004. She and Vbar met their first semester freshman year at Northeastern University and bonded immediately over their love of fresh food, the middle east and the likelihood that they will never get decently paying jobs. In the proceeding years, Emily lived first in the Mission Hill area of Boston before moving out to Jamaica Plain to roost. In the summer of 2008 Emily migrated west to San Francisco she still lives with her man Billy. Emily loves global travel and has spent time backpacking around Europe as well as in Turkey and Brazil.

    Emily’s cooking style can be described as clean, natural and adventurous. Never one to back down from a challenge, can-not-do is not a phrase in her pantry. A master of substitutions, she rarely follows a recipe exactly, often with deliciously innovative results.  Always one to be inspired by her surroundings, she enjoys shopping for new and inexpensive ingredients in farmers markets and ethnocentric neighborhoods, in particular Chinatown. Emily’s meals are strongly tied to the seasons particularly since she is lucky enough to have access to fresh California produce. Emily’s strong caw and yummy mowables make her a truly upstanding west-coast representative for the Crows.

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    Quack!

    by emily • March 16, 2011 • Jamaica Plain • 1 Comment

    I can’t decide if I love or hate this, but either way I wanted to share this gem with the crow world. I’m always trying to think of creative ways to have quality loose leaf tea at work- but don’t want to spare either of my Finum tea filters from home. image c/o the Kitchn

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    pork for the week

    by emily • January 12, 2011 • Jamaica Plain, Meat/Poultry, Uncategorized, cookbooks • 0 Comments

    Thanks to an awesome cookbook bestowed onto me by my mother-crow called “The thousand recipe Chinese cookbook” by Gloria Bley Miller, I’ve committed myself (at least temporarily) to a one-meat-a-week diet. This book teaches cooks how to start the week with one type of meat, cooked __ way, and then use that already cooked meat in the rest of [...]

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    Copycat: Pretty Things

    by emily • December 15, 2010 • Uncategorized • 1 Comment

    In honor of breaking my posting spell, I though I’d steal Holly’s thunder by cordially agreeing with her that Pretty Things is pretty awesome, and the best beer Boston has to offer. This past weekend I tried the Pretty Things Barely-wine, and it did not disappoint. “oh you don’t say gopher! this beer is fantastic!” I have bad [...]

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    ’tis the season for pumpkin treats

    by emily • October 31, 2010 • baking • 1 Comment

    Its fall!!!!!! The best season is back in my life after a 2 year hiatus, and I am pumped. Although last year I was all up on my high horse about making pumpkin puree from scratch, tonight I cheated and used canned pumpkin to make some chocolate-pumpkin muffins. And…well….canned pumpkin is just not as rich [...]

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    Sunday Breakfast

    by emily • October 3, 2010 • Domestic Tips, Meat/Poultry • 3 Comments

    This morning I woke up to faint moans and a whisper of “I think I need some advil and some grease.” Last night we had a spectacular fire in our backyard thanks to my mancrow’s (MC) efforts of “getting all hippy and shit” by cleaning up our backyard and building an a-class fire-pit. All in all [...]

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    A Very Crow Party

    by emily • July 14, 2010 • Cheese, Jamaica Plain, Meat/Poultry • 2 Comments

    As Vbar mentioned in her posts, we had a bit of a celebration this past weekend! In honor of she and her ManCrow’s engagement, we had a bit of a party. And by bit of a party, I mean one hell of a drunken summer festival. By virtue of a strong willing of the gods, [...]

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    Tacos!

    by emily • June 8, 2010 • Jamaica Plain, Meat/Poultry, San Francisco, dessert, sauces • 1 Comment

    Hello blog, its been a while. After a long journey across the country with my man crow, my cat, and in a strangers car, I’ve arrived in New England. More importantly, I will soon be reunited with the JP crows! I immediately started missing Oakland, and Oakland taco trucks, the second we left California. The [...]

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    Where is my milk from?

    by emily • April 25, 2010 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    http://whereismymilkfrom.com/ I came across this little web gem tonight when looking up what to have for dinner! I’m going to miss my Straus Creamery products when I am back on the Eastern Coast, but I hope I can find some yummy local-ish milk to fill my dairy needs.

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