Stews for Around the Fire

November 12, 2020

Here in New York, we’ve been willing the universe to make fall last as long as possible because, as Andy says every single morning in ominous, Game-of-Thrones-like tones, winter is coming. In normal years, I don’t usually care that much. Cold weather is the season of cozy food — braised meats, red wine, warm-your-bones stews, and friends and family around… Read more »

A Beautiful Weekend

November 9, 2020

Good morning, everyone. A really good morning! Where were you when you heard the news? We were walking back from the farmer’s market, when the phones in our pockets started buzzing like crazy. We FaceTimed Phoebe in college, then called Abby, who was driving home from practice. We instructed her to lay on the horn the whole way home. It… Read more »

A Good Day for Cake

November 5, 2020

Everyone hanging in there? I wanted to let you know I wrote about Yossy Arefi’s Salty Caramel Peanut Butter Cake (from her new awesome book) over at Cup of Jo today. It might be just the kinda thing for a) distracting b) drowning sorrows c) celebrating d) making your day the tiniest bit better…

What Can We Distracticook?

November 2, 2020

Good morning. I hope everyone is hanging in there. As someone on twitter wrote yesterday, Next week has been the longest week. I thought if you are feeling similarly, you might like a few culinary prescriptions for how to get through it without spiraling to dark places. If you are not phone-banking or helping out at the polls, I think… Read more »

An Extreme Milkshake for Abby’s Birthday

October 29, 2020

I know, I know, I know. This is maybe the most ridiculous thing you’re going to see on this blog or maybe ever. It involved sketches and candy melts and extricating green M&Ms from a large bag of multicolored M&Ms and a small tube of mini ones; it involved baking brownies and whirling a milkshake. It involved an 11th-hour FaceTime… Read more »

Orzo-Forward Soup, Maple-Miso Delicata Squash, Vote Early

October 21, 2020

Good morning. Hope you are all hanging in there. Last weekend was a good one — we spent a sunny sweater-and-Birkenstocks kind of day in lovely Rhinebeck, NY where we had lunch at Bread Alone and did a short beautiful hike (above). On the hour-and-half drive there, I was able to attend my college friend’s daughter’s bat mitzvah in Chicago,… Read more »