I dipped a spoon into the churning ice cream maker and gave it to my brother to taste.
“This is actually very good,” he said. “What else are you going to put in it?”
“Nothing,” I assured him.
“Good!”
This took place last Sunday, when we all gathered at my parents’ house to pick sour cherries off their […]

I love malt. A good vanilla malted is one of my favorite things in the world, and I adore those Banana Malt Brûlée Spoonfuls I made last summer.
So for this recipe from Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan, I was up for questing all over to find a big carton of Whoppers […]

This is a combination of two recipes from Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan, one of the smartest and friendliest cookbook authors and food bloggers I know.
It remained moist and delicious almost a week later, and got rave reviews from my mother and Dave’s coworkers. (We bake a lot, so we have […]

What do you do with a freezer full of banana rum ketchup? You make banana burgers, of course!
These were entirely Dave’s creation. He put them together one night while I was out at the gym, trying to find a boxing class that would be right for me. He timed them so that they would be […]

That photo up there? That’s the older of my two little brothers. (He physically towers over me now, but still.) He just graduated from Bard College with a B.A. in Anthropology. I’m damn proud of him.
For the sake of pretending this post is about food, though, here are a few links to food blog posts […]

When I think of cucumber salad, I think of all the love and sheer stubborn energy that only your grandmother can bring to the table.
My grandmother, my Ima, makes very classic Hungarian cucumber salad, with vinegar and (again, you guessed it) paprika. Alanna of A Veggie Venture learned to make cucumber salad with sour cream […]