Friday Eating & Reading

June 23, 2017

What I’m eating and reading this week: On the dinner line-up: Grilled Tuna Sandwiches with Salsa Fresca, one of my most favorite summer meals. (How to Celebrate Everything owners, page 158; for everyone else, here’s a version that’s close.) A new science podcast for kids (ages 5-10) from NPR: Wow in the World How to raise a reader. Dragonfruit Vodka… Read more »

A Drinking Lover’s Guide to Temperance

June 22, 2017

This might come as a surprise to you — whatwith all those love letters we’ve written to our Gin & Tonics, Dark & Stormies and Manhattans, not to mention an entire section titled “Medicine” in my first book — but we in the DALS house, as of about two years ago, are no longer cocktail-every-night folks. This does not mean… Read more »

Hooray!

June 14, 2017

Just a quick post to point you towards this fun read from the folks at Epicurious. It’s the understatement of the year to say I’m honored to be on any list that includes Marcella Hazan, Famous Amos, and Joan Didion. (Yes! Joan Didion!) Back to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow. (And P.S. It reminded me that my house needs to get… Read more »

Pizza for Serious Pizza Lovers

June 8, 2017

Continuing along this week’s theme of Things Jenny Cooked from Cookbooks While on Assignment, I’d like to present to you one last mind-blowing recipe: Joe Beddia’s Asparagus Pizza with Lemon and Spring Cream from his new book Pizza Camp. I don’t think it should come as a surprise to you that we eat a lot of pizza in our house…. Read more »

Crispy Tofu with Ginger and…Whatever

June 6, 2017

I’m beginning to think that my kids are never going to warm up to tofu. Though I guess I can’t blame them considering that I never served it until relatively recently…and also because I never really ate it myself, unless a little silky white cube in my miso soup accidentally slipped onto my spoon. In the last few years, though,… Read more »

Friday Reading & Eating

June 2, 2017

What I’m eating and reading this week: How spring-y and simple and beautiful does this salad look? (Thanks, Phyllis!) Saints for All Occasions took me a week to finish but only because I didn’t want it to end. Best novel I’ve read in a long time. Oldie but goodie on the dinner line-up next week: Enchiladas. (You can use any mole.) Read of the… Read more »