A PSA for Brooklynites: NEVER USE BROOKLYN LOCKSMITH, AKA SPEEDWAY
Feel free to pass this on to anyone and everyone—these people have really pissed me off, and it’s time to use the power of the Internet…
Two weeks ago the front-door ...
Mains, Nap-Friendly Recipes, Recipes, Vegetarian
Corn, Zucchini, and Tomato Pie
On Thursday we were summoned, via an emergency phone call, down to south Jersey again. The family emergency continues, sadly—I don’t mean to be so oblique ...
Books, Soup, Starters, Vegetarian
Food Is Love: Cold Cucumber Soup
S has been having a hard time recently—the family emergency I mentioned last week was his, and it continues—so I wanted to do something ...
Mains, Nap-Friendly Recipes, Quick Suppers, Recipes, Starters, Vegetarian
Summer in a Bowl: A Quick Sauté of Corn, Tomato, and Zucchini
Just because we had some chicken the other night, it doesn’t mean I’ve lost interest in having all-veg dinners whenever possible. And as long ...
Reintroducing Meat in a Most Delicious Way (With 3—Count Em, 3—Recipes)
Our Week of Vegetables ended abruptly with a phone call from S’s brother Friday morning, summoning us to south Jersey for a family emergency. It ...
Mains, Quick Suppers, Recipes, Sides, Soup, Starters, Vegetarian
Tomato Tomato Tomato (A Week of Vegetables)
Yesterday was Day 3 of A Week of Vegetables. (I didn’t write about Day 2 because it consisted largely of leftovers from Day 1. ...
Flora Update
As Cathy from My Little Kitchen so wisely suggested regarding my, er, unusual growth, I contacted the Cornell Agricultural Extension. Steve Reiners, Associate Professor in Horticultural Sciences, was ...
Unusual Flora of Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Our apartment is a tropical rainforest.
There are several reasons why I believe this to be the case. Exhibit A: The sweet potato forest that sprung up in our ...
Nap-Friendly Recipes, Soup, Starters, Vegetarian, Weight Watchers
A Week of Vegetables for Dinner
After yet another disappointing Saturday morning at Weight Watchers (I stayed the same, even though last Sunday’s dinner at The Queen’s Hideaway was my ...
The Queen at the Farmer’s Market
This morning at our local farmer’s market I ran into Liza Queen, chef-owner of The Queen’s Hideaway, a new restaurant in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I wrote about it for ...