Our culinary diary
While the rest of you are celebrating Saint Patrick's Day, I'm vacillating between the five stages of grief over UVA's loss last night. I guess this post is helping me move past the denial stage, given that I just wrote the words "UVA's loss." My very caring and loving husband, is being even nicer to... Continue Reading →
We may have mentioned it once or twice, or a million times, but Selim definitely has the sweet tooth in this family. I could eat chips & dip for the rest of my life, but Selim could easily subsist on sweets, especially chocolate! We like to joke that he has a separate dessert stomach. It's... Continue Reading →
If there's any dish that just screams 'Hanukkah,' it's potato latkes. Latkes are traditional Hanukkah fare not for the dish itself, but for the oil its fried in. Hanukkah is known as the Festival of Lights; it celebrates the miracle of one day's worth of oil lasting for eight days. Over 2000 years ago, the... Continue Reading →
Today is the Friday of Hanukkah for 2017. We're not Jewish, but always have thought that this blog was a great excuse to cook and sample foods from all of the world's countries, cultures, and religions... Holidays just seem to be the logical place to start. Selim loves Jewish food. He grew up in Cleveland, which... Continue Reading →
When I decided to make surprise Hanukkah dinner tonight, I knew I wanted to make latkes and dessert, but what to make for a main dish...? I've never made brisket before, but I don't live under a rock. I know that this cut of meat is beloved by Jewish bubbes and Texas pit-masters alike. Honestly,... Continue Reading →
"The best part of life is when your family become your friends and your friends become your family." I love that "Friendsgiving" is a thing now. I just learned that while obviously friends have been gathering for meals for a long time, "Friendsgiving" became a thing, marked by its entrance into the Urban Dictionary lexicon... Continue Reading →
Have you ever been in a restaurant and decided on a nice, big, juicy burger for dinner? You're super-excited and think nothing can be better than your highly anticipated burger? So you place your order with the server, and then s/he asks you, "Do you want that on a regular bun or a pretzel bun?"... Continue Reading →
At every family meal we have on my maternal side of the family, everyone gets really excited when they find out that my Aunt Bobbie has made the rolls or bread. She's famous in the family for delicious, fluffy, homemade rolls and bread. At this most recent Thanksgiving, when she was slicing bread to place... Continue Reading →
So confession. We're not really the big Valentine's Day types. I feel like I'm a middle-of-the-road kind of girl when it comes to this. I don't hate Valentine's Day or go on long rants against the commercialism of the day. But I also don't really love or expect a dozen red roses with a heart-shaped... Continue Reading →
Technically this is our second New Year's Eve living in South Carolina, but the first one barely counts. We had just moved here, in a whirlwind month that not only included moving to a new state, but also getting married, honeymooning in Puerto Rico, and spending Christmas with Ally's family. I'm pretty sure there were... Continue Reading →
Bon Appetit Baby! 
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