Cocktail Party Quick Pickle Recipe (Inspired by Momofuku Vinegar Pickles) Brine Ingredients: 1 cup of water 1 cup of rice wine vinegar ( use only 1/2 cup at a time) 6 heaping tsp granulated sugar 2 1/4 tsp. Kosher salt a 1/4 cup or so of pickling spices (I used …
Davis Square is a great place to eat and drink and it just keeps getting better. There are all the great standbys like Diesel Café, Redbones BBQ, J.P. Licks, Diva Indian Bistro, Anna’s Taqueria and the like. There are also quite a few newcomers and I have had the chance …
I’d like to blame my haziness up there on what I have lovingly named “the plague” that has hit 3/4 of our family of late (and in the same breath be grateful that we were spared worse), but I can’t. It’s not the never ending cold that drags us right …
Whether you bring it to a friend or you buy it for your own Holiday Open House, here are some nice little things to grace your table and/or side table.
I have been vegetarian for broke, no income college student reasons but also because meat is not high on my must haves list. Truthfully, I am perfectly satisfied with a rotating menu that includes vegetables, breads, mollusks, fish, fruit and liver. The rest of meat I can do without. When …
There is nothing more simple than making flavored sugar and it adds a wonderful dimension to baked goods or sprinkled over just the right thing. My pantry has vanilla sugar in a big bin, which ends up being the sugar I use for almost all my sweet baking. Any time …
This Canadian Cranberry sauce recipe has a slight hint of citrus from orange peel. The cranberry sauce recipe is great on its own, on sandwiches and in cocktails.
This week we’re picking blueberries and sugar snaps. It is hotter than hot, but somehow it’s almost always just a little bit cooler on the farm. After a week of city heat, and sloth with everyone’s nerves growing together like tangled weeds it feels good to leave the kids on …
The Boston Brunchers have been on my radar for a while now. As a freelance writer, who writes primarily about food, I follow a lot of local bloggers and am a member of various blogging groups and receive regular updates from freelance writing groups as well. I am also, by …
I love to read and I’m picky about what I read, but I’m not a literary snob. Since time is short and my day full of heated debates about why I only packed granola bars, raspberries, tortilla chips, peanut butter and banana sandwiches and carrot sticks as the option for …
