Bitter does not seem to be much of an American flavor. I think that we go for the sweet vegetables around here: carrots, gentle lettuces, candy-like beets, cucumbers. The bitter greens like radicchio, endive, broccoli raab, and dandelion are only for those who love the extremity of the flavor, for those of us who…
cinnamon buns, part 1
Sadie and Willow were born 12 hours apart. We met Willow’s parents in birth class, when both girls were in the belly, so the girls extend the length of their lives by 3 months, and they say, “we have known each other for that long.” They have celebrated almost every birthday together. Sadie and…
Kitchen Mix (Birthday Girl Edition)
Hello there. It’s me, Joey. Yeah, the husband. Alana has asked me to write a few words about the mix we made in honor of our birthday girl. Well, we made a mix, and it’s her birthday, anyway. If it was really up to Sadie, we might have “Mamma Mia” by Abba six times…
black bottom cupcakes, revised
The other day, Sadie got in trouble at school. It seems that a bunch of kids were acting up, and, in her words, “she couldn’t help it, and she joined in by accident.” She was on edge when I picked her up from school, and the afternoon just went down from there in flames of…
new orleans (the last): cafe du monde
In the sense that there is a bit of Disneyworld in the French Quarter, I’d say that Cafe du Monde could be considered the food court. Right there in the middle of it all, there is most likely a line of sunburned and drunk/ hungover tourists extending down the street, waiting not so patiently…
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