For some reason, lots of my childhood memories with my Nana revolve around food—the good, the bad and the Jewish. The good: delicious, sweet and savory meatballs. The bad: Rice Dream (sorry Nana, but that stuff is just awful). The Jewish: Chocolate babka. Mmmmmm, delicious babka. Come to find out, its origins are debatable (some [...]
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PAMAphrodisiac
I have a bad habit of throwing things into the abyss that is my freezer and forgetting they exist down there. Then I wonder where all my tupperware went …
… hmmm, oh yeah! It’s holding three gallons of freezer-burned chili …
Then there’s my two plastic bags full of frozen pomegranate seeds from these gorgeous pomegranates [...]
It’s all Greek to me
I’ve botched baklava before. It’s hard to pinpoint my mistake, as I was in fourth grade at the time, completing an assignment as part of a project on Greece. My mother and I got the recipe from the owner of a local greek restaurant (unfortunately, we didn’t have the advantage of Epicurious or AllRecipes back [...]
Cookies for Cars.comers
Dear Cars.comers,
I wasn’t holding out on you by not posting this recipe. It was just a simple case of procrastination. I swear. I know you really like the oatmeal chocolate-chip cookies I send to work with Dave every so often, so now you can make them for yourselves. But don’t worry, I’ll still send some [...]
Fig-get about it.
I have a confession to make. Until a few days ago, the only fig I’d ever had in my kitchen was of the Newton variety, if you catch my drift. I know. Revoke my foodie card right here on the spot if you must.
(Maybe I shouldn’t tell you that this was also my first foray [...]
This bread is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S
Sometimes we buy bananas to let them sit on top of the fridge over-ripening. Because then we get to make banana bread! I adapted this recipe from Elise’s banana bread recipe at Simply Recipes.
Here are the poor over-ripe bananas.
You know they’re ready when the entire stem breaks off when you pluck them from the fridge/fruit [...]
