Ever since I was in college, when I would go home to visit my mom, at some point I would wind up rummaging through her pantry scavenging for groceries. It wasn’t that I couldn’t easily go to the store to buy my own, it was just that whatever already lined her shelves seemed practical and necessary. I could rest assured that all of the brands were high-quality and none of the expiration dates would have lapsed (though you would have…
There are people who eat to live and people who live to eat. Though there are very few circumstances in which I will voluntarily miss a meal, I have some friends who don’t even eat dinner from time to time because they don’t have time to cook. Luckily, recipes like orange beef and broccoli stir fry is an easy way to make a quick meal, even when you’re low on time.…
Internet, I have a confession. I haven’t been completely honest with you about something and I think it’s time that I come clean. I talk to you here a few times each week about the food I’m cooking and eating. I share a lot of my kitchen with you: from the contents of my fridge to my inability to refuse anything that has the words “chocolate” and “chip” in the same sentence. My confession is that I start every morning…
All of us have been there. You’re at a birthday dinner for a friend of a friend of a friend. Wine is flowing, shots are being passed around the so-long-that-you-can’t see-the-person-on-the-other-end table and your friends are goading you to order that extra side of truffle fries because “it’s a special occasion.” And then, someone pulls out the bill and announces that since everyone is chipping in for the birthday girl, each person owes, oh, a quarter of a million dollars.…