Istanbul 2023

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 →

Italy Trip 2023

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 →

Maine 2021

Eastern Promenade, Portland, ME We haven't had a travel post in a really long, well, because we haven't gone anywhere in a long time! Thanks global pandemic. Remember back in March of 2020, when there were a few days where no one knew what to do or what was going to happen? It seemed like... Continue Reading →

Trip to Austin, TX

  This past week, we've been eating our way through Austin, Texas. We went on this fun trip with about a dozen other family members, to watch Ally's cousin Townley swim in his final collegiate meet for the University of Texas. Townley is an amazing swimmer - he swam for Team USA in the 2016... Continue Reading →

Weekend in Cleveland

October has been kind of a low volume blogging month for us. Honestly, we haven't made a whole lot worth remembering. This is a little sad because there are so many good food holidays we should have been celebrating in October. (We've missed Noodle Day AND Pasta Day - though why those are two separate... Continue Reading →

Farewell Columbia

We're going to have to update our Meet Us! page here soon. Right now on there, we described ourselves as "newlyweds... currently living in South Carolina." Well for one, I'm not sure we're newlyweds anymore. When does that end exactly? And secondly, we're leaving South Carolina. We moved down here to attend graduate school back... Continue Reading →

DC Trip

Sorry for the lack of recipes this week! We've been in Washington DC for most of the week. But this IS a food blog, so let me show you the prettiest thing I ate recently. Say hello to the Cherry Blossom doughnut from Astro Chicken & Doughnuts. This gorgeous creation was on the menu during the... Continue Reading →

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