saturday afternoon i made bananas foster ice cream. i’ve really been wanting to make a pie lately, but i know it would make it too hot in our apartment. i’ve also been wanting to make bananas foster. i had it once in a restaurant years ago and loved it. so then i was thinking that, [...]

enjoying a strawberry lemon balsamic cocktail
last night we went to the first night of the rooftop dinner series presented by gilt club. it was fantastic!

fresh corn, mache, avocado, and shitake salad
i made corn salad a lot, but i use frozen corn. my husband took a bite of this salad and said ‘wow, the fresh corn [...]

photo from epicurious.com
i ran across this wonderful section on epicurious last night and have been drooling over it ever since. each week they post a three course meal menu for each day of the week with beverage pairings. it is seasonal, so right now they’re focused on grilling and salads. these spring rolls caught my [...]

lately breakfast is either scrambled eggs with cheese or grape nuts mixed with yogurt, and they both are quite delicious, but sometimes you crave something different. last sunday was one of those days.
i lightly toasted some bread while i fried two eggs, one for each of us. when the toast and eggs were done i [...]

i was at trader joe’s last weekend and picked up a jar of trader joe’s korma simmer sauce. it has been warm and i haven’t wanted to engage in any serious cooking and this seemed like a perfect easy delicious solution. i sauted an onion and some zucchini then set them aside. i added some [...]

the menu from the hot weather dinner party
manchego, quince paste, baguette, and grapes
caprese salad
butter leaf salad with breakfast radishes and a balsamic vinaigrette
spaghetti carbonara
homemade strawberry ice cream
homemade raspberry lambic sorbet

it was very successful! i was worried that the pasta would be too heavy, but no one seemed to care about that. i think that everyone [...]

french potato salad with shallots and fava beans tossed in a balsamic vinaigrette. perfect.

as i mentioned earlier this week i wanted to try making this delicious-sounding sour-cherry lambic sorbet. naturally i couldn’t find sour cherries anywhere, not even frozen or canned. apparently the world only wants sweet cherries, and to be fair i usually fall into that category too. i was lamenting this fact to my friend rebecca [...]

we’re hosting smallish dinner party tomorrow night, six people total, and i don’t know what to make, other than a bigger version of this caprese salad. you see, i had a nice menu all planned out. i was going to make four different pizzas, a couple of salads, an ice cream and a sorbet, with [...]

i just finished my very first batch of homemade ice cream! i was nervous that i would accidentally scramble the eggs when making the custard, but i didn’t! i had picked up two pints of strawberries from groundworks organics at the farmers’ market and they just seemed made for this ice cream.

i think tomorrow i’ll [...]