We aren't doing much to celebrate this year, but one thing there's always time for is a good summer cocktail. I don't even know if this needs a recipe -- blend about 4-5 cups (a blender-full, basically) of watermelon cubes with a few leaves of mint, some ice if not chilled, ice cream if you like it (I added a few tablespoons of strawberry ice ...
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banana and blueberry pancakes
As it turns out, studying for the bar is no fun. No fun at all. But if there's anything that makes it okay, ridiculously fluffy homemade banana pancakes must be high on the list. This past Sunday, I thought we would take a break from memorizing the law by indulging in a traditional lazy, full-fat, extra-syrup brunch, and for the first time, I ...
triple berry tartlets
One of the first blogs I ever started following was Cupcakes and Cashmere. It's remarkable how much my focus has shifted over the last few years in terms of what blogs I like to read; initially it was purely fashion blogs, but as I've come to cook more and more, and especially in the years since I've come to live in my own apartment, blogs on ...
milk-stout-shakes!
A few weeks ago, I came upon this ingenious idea for porter milkshakes on Yellow Brick Home, and was so floored. Beer milkshakes! Why did this never occur to me before? We're not frequent porter drinkers, but we are huge fans of Left Hand Milk Stout, and usually have it in constant supply. So it was an easy step to go out and buy some vanilla ice ...
butter mochi
Butter mochi! The subject of my third and final installment of this little series on Hawaiian foods (parts 1 and 2 were on ahi poke and Spam musubi). I love all the ways that Hawaii is a blend of Asian and Western influences -- when it comes to food, it can only mean good things. For instance, I'm not the biggest fan of traditional Asian ...
spicy ahi poke, inspired by foodland
Spicy ahi poke is perhaps my greatest love in the food world. First introduced to me when I visited Bowl #2's family in Hawaii, poke is pretty much just fresh chunks of tuna marinated in soy sauce and other ingredients. Some describe it as a Hawaiian ceviche, which I find apt but not all-encompassing of its utter perfection (I just describe it as ...
spam musubi!
Hello! It’s been awhile! Pretty much a week after I started this up, I went into a whirlwind month and a half where we took our very last finals ever as students, left Boston, moved to New York (where we had 10 days to furnish our new but totally empty apartment before hosting family), went back to Boston, graduated from law school, visited family, ...
spicy basil fried rice
I have never seen anyone anywhere eat with the capacity and fervor of Bowl #2 when he orders spicy basil fried rice for delivery from a Thai place. No matter how monstrous the portion is, he will finish it (even if it means total immobilization and agony for hours afterwards). So, given the tumultuous events in Boston yesterday, I thought I would ...
