Summer soup

We’re at peak summer with the beginning of August already behind us. On days like these, it’s far too humid and turning on the stove is furthest thing from your mind. This calls for something light but tasty enough to keep sustain beach-side frisbee-ing and strolling.   There’s gazpacho – Andalusian, vichyssoise – French, borscht……

Farmer’s markets, three ways (plus a veg patch)

If you know anything about me, it’s that I love touching and looking at food. Send me to a specialty market – one that commands a niche in, say, spices or variegated fruits or dried seafood or… (the list goes on) – and I’ll emerge hours later in awe. But the best kind of food……

Beans

A post about beans – not the sexiest thing ever, but it’s time the legumes got their chance in the spotlight. Beans have been a source of protein for many cultures throughout history. They’ve been noted in the Iliad, cultivated by Mesoamericans and, as with the squash plant, were one of the “Three Sister’s” in……

My first through-and-through original

Home alone one evening, and somewhere in the middle of not-hungry and need-energy-to-sustain-myself-till-the-morning, I found my first recorded original soup recipe. I’ve “made” several mish-mashes on my own, for sure. Several goat cheese pizzas come to mind, as does a whole year in Food Technology at GCSE (though I’d like to forget some of the……

Oh, honey

  First of all, let me declare that I don’t just eat sweets all day, nor do I endorse this behaviour (not publicly, at least). That being said, this is a pretty darn good cake. It’s flu season in the US and with NYC being particularly badly affected, a little honey can only help. A……

Sardines (a non-recipe for non-sad-desk-lunch)

I came back home, from home, this week. Travelling was crazy this time. Between jet lag and baggage issues, some nights were so exhausting that we’d fall asleep by 10, which is not normal for me. But seeing Japan for the first time was amazing. Kyoto, with its quiet charm, was so beautiful. The sunsets……

Christmas: Chocolate Chip Cookies (+tips on shipping!)

Hi there! Quick post today before I run off to a planning session for Brain Awareness Week 🙂 Watch me be a creepy graduate trying to fit in with the young, college student crowd teaching kids about the brain. We are 15 days away from Christmas, people. It’s more of a cultural holiday than a……