I made a deal with myself about food blogging. It goes like this: I will not blog everything I make just because I can and I will not recommend anything I create based on the sole reason that I made it.  A blogger code of ethics if you will. This deal means that the recipes [...]

  The Allston neighborhood of Boston–which I happen to live right near though not in–is more often than not ridiculed as a college slum. It is affectionately called Allston Rock City because of its music scene and do it yourself house shows and Allston Rat City, well, because there sure are a lot of rats [...]

It is December. We have a real christmas tree in the apartment. It smells sweet. It is the first real tree I’ve had.  I’m in the midst of planning a trip to Paris in March that is keeping me looking right through the cold winter looming ahead and my nose stuck in travel guides at [...]

I have a new idea. Let me explain it. Every week, I am going to cook a new recipe from a new cookbook to challenge myself with new cuisines and new techniques. New is key here. Good thing for me and my voracious appetite for books (and food) the library is bursting with cookbooks to [...]

Before I even get to the describing the dish at hand, a ridiculously easy chicken salad that isn’t half bad for you and tastes like you spent all day grinding together the spice combination (while you didn’t of course), I must confess a grave kitchen atrocity. Brian and I messed up while roasting a simple [...]

Brian’s mother gave us a recipe for coq au vin as a housewarming gift alongside a new dutch oven. We decided to give the recipe a try albeit in another dutch oven since we made the recipe with a larger chicken than it called for. We are just rolling in dutch ovens these days, which [...]

In the name of all things budget friendly, Brian and I are now fans of buying whole chickens. Taking the advice of the food budget extraordinaire Julia, I am all about  cooking and using every last bit of a chicken both for meals and for stock. Prepackaged chicken breasts are banished from our grocery cart. [...]