food

  • cheese and chive biscuits.

    bartered cheese flat leaf chives cheese and chives biscuits sunday morning some of the best perks of james huffing it to the farmer’s market every saturday are the non-veggie spoils he comes home with.…

    May 8, 2012 10 Comments
  • tiny-skillet-eggs.

    spinach | kale blossoms | radish greens | kale i love tiny things. and i don’t just mean the minuscule place i call home. i mean i love tiny versions of regular-sized things. yes,…

    May 3, 2012 8 Comments
  • cacao prieto.

    chocolate bars 19th century mélange | 21st century reproduction liqueur tasting it’s not every day that you get invited to see the inner workings of a chocolate factory, just ask arthur slugworth. you might imagine my…

    May 1, 2012 8 Comments
  • lemon cake.

    if you’re going to do one thing this weekend, i say, make a lemon cake. there’s no more sure-fire way to get your apartment feeling springy and fresh. bonus points: using a lemon reamer…

    April 26, 2012 27 Comments
  • people’s pops.

    people’s pops. they’re not mind blowing. they’re juice, frozen. and that’s the beauty of them. don’t expect to blown away, expect to be utterly satisfied.  slurp on your very own raspberry basil pop knowing…

    April 17, 2012 2 Comments
  • pizzelle: a story.

    james is the baker in our house.  it’s not that i don’t like to bake. i enjoy the precision: using the back of a knife to even the drift of flour in a measuring…

    March 29, 2012 14 Comments
  • pause-café.

    on the kind of whirlwind trip that my sister cait and i were just on, there can put a lot of pressure to see everything. many travelers pay no attention to the impossibility of the…

    March 22, 2012 4 Comments
  • spinat-schafskäse knödel

    or, spinach-feta dumplings pain de mie | or any day-old sliced white bread cipollini onion | garlic bread | milk | garlic & onions | eggs | spinach feta dumpling knödel when i began this recipe,…

    March 21, 2012 10 Comments
  • stinky mornings.

    i realize that some of you are currently debating the mental health of a woman so utterly enamored by her lackluster breakfasts, but i can’t help myself. and besides, i think i might be…

    February 28, 2012 9 Comments
  • a hard roll with butter.

    i get it. it’s just a roll. a white flour roll smothered in butter that’s more than a few steps removed from the farm {i’m being generous here}where it was made. but to me,…

    February 23, 2012 17 Comments