I recently had the pleasure of spending a week in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where I ate some of the best seafood and barbeque of my life. Case in point: Freshly caught and steamed peel and eat shrimp at Dockside ‘N Duck. Also worth mentioning in terms of life-altering dining experiences was my [...]
I have recently taken up a new hobby. Up until now, I have killed every plant I’ve ever owned, but it’s no secret that I love cooking with herbs, and I love the idea of growing my own even more. So I’ve been cultivating a little herb garden on my windowsill. How cute is my [...]
Yes, I picked out the greens and oranges from two bags of M&M’s. Such measures are perfectly applaudable on or around St. Patrick’s day. These chewy, bite sized peanut butter cookies were exceptionally complimentary to the flavor and shape of classic M&M goodness. Needless to say, they were almost gone from the tray so quickly [...]
I’m back! Want to know how I survived what will have been my craziest semester of graduate school, without caving in and ordering take-out every night? With recipes like this one, that didn’t take me more than a half hour to cook. Steamed fish and vegetables in parchment paper packets- if you are someone who [...]
On Thursday night we anxiously made it down to our shore house, half expecting it to have been badly flooded by last weekend’s storm. Thankfully, it was still standing and had incurred no damage at all! Our Labor Day weekend celebrations began at once, and although we shared some truly memorable meals, we did not [...]
