St. Giles and the Chocolate Burren - Travel Stories From Ireland Pt. 2
Monday, August 26, 2019
All my many apologies for how long an absence I've taken, both from blogging in general and from sharing stories about Ireland. It's now approaching nine or ten months since our trip and we still haven't covered even a fraction of all the stories there are to tell. Still, with the weather taking an autumnal turn this week I'm full-up on nostalgia for Ireland and I decided to brush off, finish, and post this story of one of my favorite characters we encountered the whole trip. To read the first travel-stories post, click here!
Labels:
ireland,
travel,
travel eats,
travel writing
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Hello! It's been a while since I've served up a recipe, hasn't it? Summer has come on in full strength and with it brought a number of life changes. I'm excited about all of them, and eager to begin to share them with you. It's funny - the older I get, the less likely I am to share things immediately. There are some things in life that are just nice to keep to yourself for a while, then decide to share when the time is right. One of the pieces of news I can spill is that I'm no longer working at Four Eleven York, which probably will come as a surprise to many of you.
Labels:
baking,
cookies,
easy recipes,
holidays
The Merits of Dining Alone
Monday, June 24, 2019
"Waiters are seldom socialists." - George Orwell
As a perpetually single woman, I often eat alone. In new cities, in my own city, in small towns that are barely incorporated, let alone gentrified. At this point I am accustomed to the occasional condescending looks, to announcing I’d like a reservation for one, to being ignored by the waitstaff and given the absolute worst table. Of course it is arguably more fun to eat in company, but I have learned to enjoy aspects of solo dining. Barring a few uncomfortable situations which could potentially arise, there are a multitude of perks to independent meals.
Labels:
eat local,
food-writing,
real life,
single,
travel,
travel eats,
travel writing
Southern Summer Heat: An Existential Crisis
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Today we experienced the first really really flesh-crawlingly hot day of the summer. I feel like the month of May starts off by tricking me into thinking I love the summer - the produce and the colors, the long evenings and the everything-blooming-or-green. And then. Oh then. So I wrote about the "then" in an effort to remind myself. I wonder: does anyone else become irrationally, out-of-control grouchy when the summer heat hits? Consider this the official frenemy-status with summertime you never even asked for...
Homemade Potato & Ricotta Gnocchi
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
- gotten a terrific sunburn on my first beach day of the year
- gone strawberry pickin' and got the best strawberry ice cream in the state of Virginia (hollering at ya, College Run Farms!)
- taken an abysmal trip to the aquarium by myself
Cake To Share: Best Devil's Food Sheet-Cake
Monday, April 1, 2019
Oh my absolute goodness, friends. It's been so long since I've sat down and been able to share a recipe! When my friend Kevin from work asked if I'd posted anything new in a while I had to reluctantly admit...I had not. Life has just been a landslide: heavy, loud, graceless. Not gonna lie, when I finally sit down on my "weekend" I often have no space for words left within my heart and mind. There are exciting changes amid the negative, vision within the chaos, but it essentially has left me with a distinct lack of time to devote to actually cooking things and photographing them and sharing them here on the blog. Technical glitches mean I've even been quieter on Instagram which, as y'all know, is a place I tend to be overly vocal. But today I've got a recipe for you and I hope it finds a place in your kitchen the way it has in mine.
Labels:
birthday,
cake,
cakes,
dessert,
family-friendly,
friends and family
6 Chef Tools To Add To Your Kitchen
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Guess how many months I've worked in the restaurant business? Seven. Already! It's weird to think that seven months ago I stood in front of a three-compartment sink without the faintest idea of how to work the drains, isn't it? Y'all, I still have so much to learn but I've come a distance since July. One thing I've become increasingly confident about is this growing list of professional tools that I've discovered I don't want to be without in my kitchen at home.
Persimmon Salsa Verde
Monday, January 28, 2019
Coffee in Ireland: The Travel Guide
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
It's been nearly two months since I came home from Ireland and I'm finally getting life together enough to start writing about it! This endeavor definitely deserves some caffeine so of course we're going to begin by throwing together an illustrated travel guide to to coffee along our route.
Labels:
coffee,
ireland,
local guide,
travel,
travel eats
I Have A Brioche Body: The Power Of Being A Bigger Girl
Monday, January 14, 2019
You know, I've been thinking: my body makes perfect sense in the context of my job as
a pastry cook. It is in my job description to eat cake. I have wide
hips and soft curves in all the right places (and a couple of the
wrong ones). Were I thirty pounds lighter you'd call me “sculpted.”
As it is, I appear to have been shaped beautifully out of dough and
then left somewhere warm to rise; same lines, somewhat less distinct.
Soft. Wholesome. Real. I'm not chubby, I'm proofing.
Mas Sal: How Salt is Changing The Way I Cook
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
“Get used to the way the salt falls from your hands; experience the illicit thrill of using so much of something we’ve all been taught to fear.” - Samin Nosrat, Fat, Salt, Acid, Heat"Mas sal! Mas sal!" My chef gestures to the finely chopped potatoes I am seasoning - or trying to season. He's not Hispanic, and I'm not Hispanic, so by the time I've finally understood that he wants me to add more salt to the potatoes, he's reverted to English:
"You need more salt
"How much more salt?"
"A lot more."
I pick up perhaps a teaspoon of salt and sprinkle it into the potatoes then begin to mix it in with my fingers. "Sorry, I don't speak Spanish."
Chef rolls his eyes. "That's bullshit. Every line cook speaks Spanish."
Labels:
cooking,
four eleven york,
fresh year,
how to,
new skills,
restaurant life,
tutorial,
vegetarian
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