The limit does not exist… on my love for Tina Fey.
Love this.
Ok, I just gotta do it: “Pi Phi Nachos” clap clap clapclapclap!
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The limit does not exist… on my love for Tina Fey.
Love this.
Ok, I just gotta do it: “Pi Phi Nachos” clap clap clapclapclap!
My fridge is so full of vegetables right now!
My last post waxes poetic about simple summer dinners, and here we are half way through October- Fall food is on the agenda. It’s been a pretty intense couple of months, with a lot of really great food experiences I’m eager to share with you all, so stay tuned! Food recommendations from Montreal, my sad culinary endeavors in Brussels and eating myself senseless in New York are all on deck!
Work has settled down quite a bit, so I’ll be making an effort to post more often going forward!
So, I thought about photographing tonights dinner… but not until I’d already devoured half of it’s rich and flavorful goodness. And really, who wants to look at a photo of a half-eaten bowl of food?
I made an abridged version of Bon Appetit’s Red Quinoa & Summer Squash salad, except I really only used quinoa and zuchinni, and added garlic to the dressing. Then I fried two eggs and plopped them right on top. Wow is that fantastic! (never forget that red pepper flakes enhance everything!)
Should you choose to make this salad, use much less salt then the recipe calls for to wilt the squash. 2 tsps essentially made this dish much too salty, even when I neglected to salt the dressing and the eggs.
What’s it like to spend a day at America’s Test Kitchen?
We invited “Learn To Cook” winner Ian Stanley into our studios to cook with TV’s Bridget Lancaster for a day. Watch the video to get a behind-the-scenes peek at the Test Kitchen.
Learn to cook from Bridget at home by signing up for our Online Cooking School: http://bit.ly/OmZ5lI
I’ve been wistfully following America’s Test Kitchen’s Tumblr for awhile now. Every day they are cooking or testing something fun and exciting. This guys opportunity, to go and learn to cook there, ugh! SO jealous! What a fun fun day. I want to visit someday soon!
This weekend’s food exploits-
Despite the rain, we hopped on the motorcylce and wizzed over to the NoMa neighborhood to check out the new Union Market at their picnic spectacular, but first we made a bee line for A Litteri, an amazing Italian shop I’ve been dying to visit for years. They close at 2pm on weekends so I only had about a half hour to look around, but if I’d had longer I’d likely have spent hundreds of dollars and left with dozens of bottles of olive oil, preserved peppers, cheeses and pastas. This shop is packed full of every Italian good you can imagine, and boasts a fantastic deli section with home made sausage, gorgeous cheeses and olives. They also make typical Italian American subs that are simply perfection. I only left with a few things, and am already planning my second visit! The Picnic spectacular was really quite fun. Union Market is set to open in September, so this even served as a preview of the space and shops. Things aren’t quite finished, but you can tell it’s going to be a lovely space, packed full of every food market available, from soda shops to fish stalls and charcuterie. I’m really so excited for this place to open. To garner guests and show local support Local restaurants were serving small bites of fantastic food, just to name a few, here is what we sampled:
I really really love food festivals
Have I mentioned how excited I am for the opening of Union Market? No? I AM SOOOO EXCITED!
Catch a preview this weekend at their picnic spectacular, I’ll be there, join me!
And I have a link for you that will make the rest of the summer AWESOME
Last 4th of July I invited a bunch of family to my tiny apartment and made a massive picnic spread. Literally I made brunch and then about 10 different salad and sandwich options for a picnic waiting for the fireworks.
This year however, I’ve got literally zero inspiration. Aside from grilling some brawts… what else should I prepare for a delicious 4th?
I’ve made a goal of making sure I lived this summer to the fullest, and so far I’ve been living up to that goal admirably.
This weekend was no exception- from late night “just dance” battles amidst the storm of the century, to giving a speech to young “Women for Liberty”, arriving late to a lovely wedding and the subsequent hotel afterparty, zipping around DC on Germaine’s bike, wandering Roosevelt Island, stopping off for fried seafood by the waterfront and eating BBQ at Hill Country to a ‘post electric’ play at Wooly Mammoth I think we enjoyed all DC has to offer.
Here’s to a new week, and even more summertime adventure!
