Our culinary diary
Ever since starting this blog, we’ve done our year end roundup of our favorite recipes and other statistics (see: Farewell 2023!, Adieu 2022, So Long 2021!, Good Riddance 2020, Goodbye 2019!, Recap of 2018, and Looking Back on 2017) We'll just call it stats this year, since there's only but so much to roundup. 2024 Stats Site Visitors: ♥ Unique visitors: 16,611... Continue Reading →
Fresh figs from our backyard tree! And fresh persimmons from our neighbors'! Elmo's Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes from Sesame Street's Let's Cook! cookbook for kids. An amazing home-cooked Thanksgiving dinner at my SIL's home. Sadly, only snapped a pic of the butter turkey. ATK's Braised Pork Marbella - 10/10, highly recommend
As with everywhere else we go, the food is the best part! We had amazing Brazilian food, but also some excellent Asian food given the large (particularly Japanese) diaspora in Brazil. We wished that we'd had more time to eat - we didn't get to try nearly as many places and cuisines that we'd wanted.... Continue Reading →
This cinnamon bun that's bigger than my head from the classic Richmond doughnut spot - Country Style Donuts Carrot top pesto on Oro bucatini Summer salad with the cutest lettuces from the Dupont Farmer's market Our version of Smitten Kitchen's zucchini butter spaghetti, except over Oro ravioli. We make this about once a week all... Continue Reading →
Chicken pot pie & hummus + kimchi platter, such tiny portions, at Horn O' Plenty, in Bedford, PA The exquisite breakfast spread at Chancellor's House B&B in Bedford. Not pictured, the next courses of poached pears and Belgian waffles. Oro's Beet Rosettes with peas Coconut "bird's nests" - came out a little more neon than... Continue Reading →
Ever since starting this blog, we've done our year end roundup of our favorite recipes and other statistics (see: Adieu 2022, So Long 2021!, Good Riddance 2020, Goodbye 2019!, Recap of 2018, and Looking Back on 2017) Kinda hard this year with the very few posts we've made, but I hate to break tradition... 2023 Year... Continue Reading →
For the 3 people who read this with any sort of regularity. We started this blog as a creative outlet while in graduate school. The goal was never to become some famous bloggers with a monetized site or a big following, but to keep track of the dishes we made that we wanted to remember.... Continue Reading →
Seems like we traveled more than we cooked this year... A few food-related shots from our trip to Istanbul! Drinking tea and coffee all day, everyday, like the Turks: Market in Beşiktaş: Grocery store snack dinner, Turkish style + our amazing view of the Bosphorus: I love mısır - an ear of corn! - you... Continue Reading →
Finally! Our first international trip since COVID started! We were actually supposed to leave the country, taking the then-baby on her first international trip to meet Selim's family in Turkey, right as the whole world shut down. We were supposed to leave the US on Sunday, March 22nd. We spent most of the weeks leading... Continue Reading →
Well. 2022 wins the superlative of the year we shared BY FAR the fewest blog posts. The 2021 roundup is still on the front page of the blog... Whoops! In addition to being very busy with the rest of our lives, we've also become a lot more picky with the recipe we save and share... Continue Reading →
Bon Appetit Baby! 
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