I can't decide what I'm more excited about sharing this morning. This honeycomb candy, feathery-crisp with a subtle heat, dunked gleefully into dark chocolate, and perfectly Halloween-color-schemed, or the book that it came from, The New Sugar & Spice. Both are playful, just the right amount of unconventional, and totally awesome, pretty much ...
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caramelized onion & roasted garlic pasta
A couple of months ago I stumbled on this caramelized onion and yogurt pasta by Diane Kochilas. It's just like it sounds -- tangles of caramelized onions and thick, strained Greek yogurt, tossed with sunshine-yellow pasta and a few ladles of starchy water, then served with nothing more than a generous grating of salty cheese on top. Yogurt in ...
bibim-bar! (a bibimbap party)
We had a bibimbap party this weekend! I don't know whether it's a function of living in frenetic New York, or having a lot of lawyer friends who are forever sucked back into the office on weekends or late nights, or even just being supposedly "grown-up," but sometimes it's startling how easy it is to blink and find that it's been months since ...
brown butter-oat pancakes with caramelized bananas and bourbon whip
You know what I really love (besides pancakes)? The things that you just know are going to be good before you get to try them. Black sesame soft-serve. This nubbly sweater that just came in the mail. (But not the other one that I'm returning. Or the shirt.) Emoji updates. (Tacos! Cheese!) Everything about this. It's like you see it, you ...
frankies spuntino caesar salad with salmon
A few months ago, a super exciting thing happened and I leveled up into my own office at work (we share for the first few years). OK, so it's true, it has no windows. That comes after three years. But for the first time I have a little cave all to myself! I went a tad crazy decorating my haven with gratuitously shiny file racks and cups shaped ...
charred corn with miso butter, bacon & garlic scapes
Last Saturday, when we were still puttering around in the throes of jet lag, a good friend dropped by to help ease us back into the real world. She belongs to that lucky (for us) class of friends where the apartment is never too messy to have them pop in and where a squishy couch and some food is all you need for "entertainment," which was ...
chicken katsu, mac salad & rice: a birthday hawaii plate lunch!
"Chicken katsu, katsu sauce, one scoop of mac salad, and two scoops of rice!" These are the precise (and enthusiastically recited) makings of Bowl #2's dream plate lunch-slash-birthday-request -- shatteringly crisp Panko-crusted chicken thighs, juicy inside and deftly sliced, zealously dunked in a smoky-sweet-tart katsu sauce (mysteriously made, ...
tomato bisque & apple-bacon grilled cheese
Hi friends! I'm back! I'm just peeking in again this week to share a special little guest post for a radiant new mama -- Emily from the Pig & Quill (whose baby shower from a few weeks ago was my excuse to nosh on about a year's worth of cocktail franks) had her baby! I'm mildly obsessed with baby Lana James (and her fabulous name) so I can only ...
kimchi potato salad & regular too
So Bowl #2 and I have just come to accept that we're the kind of people whose well-being depends a little pitifully on warm weather. I feel like that should have been obvious to two people from Hawaii and South Carolina, but with every Northeastern spring that's come along we're still baffled at how suddenly we're real people again, wanting to do ...
orecchiette with spring herb pesto & sausage
Were you a school lunch or a packed lunch kid? I was mostly a lunch-buyer growing up -- I had my fair share of Lunchables on field trips and PB&Js in those fold-top plastic Ziplocs-without-Ziplocs, but my school lunch memories are dominated by plastic trays sliding along metal rungs, boat-shaped French bread pizzas, clammy and not quite melted ...