Food and Drink
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Weekend Wrapup
Bartending with @daisy17 and @cocktailspirit at FLICFest, snow day lounging with Moxie, making chicken soup, reading the paper, and watching episodes of 24, a visit to Terroir to see @colintuska and @beerguy1, delectable butterscotch pudding from Puddin' (which paired nicely with a Rob Roy), writing about fried chicken, dog play dates (ack! what have I
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Booze You Can Use: Have an Aviation
Photo courtesy of The Dizzy Fizz This is another gin cocktail that I've served to many guests much to their delight. The only trick here is to have a few key, somewhat nonstandard ingredients on hand — namely maraschino liqueur and crème de violette (or crème Yvette) — but once you've got them you're good
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Length of A Morning
This morning, I was up and out the door at 7:15, walked with Moxie for an hour, got ready for work, put dinner in the slow cooker (tuscan white bean, kale and sausage soup; just realized I forgot the bay leaf), put Moxie's breakfast in a Kong to distract her when I left, slipped out
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Booze You Can Use: Have a Negroni
It's Friday. You (we) deserve a cocktail. I am going to try to post about a cocktail every Friday, so that you can be inspired to order or make something new each week. One of my favorite go-to cocktails is the Negroni, and several friends I've introduced to them are now hooked (I'm looking at
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Life Skills
I took an advanced knife skills class this weekend at The Brooklyn Kitchen. A few of the people to whom I mentioned it thought I was saying "life skills." As far as I'm concerned, they're one and the same. I've now fine-tuned my ability to break down a chicken and learned to fillet a fish
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Thailand: The Photos
I was going to wait to post my Thailand photos until they were all neatly labeled and tagged. Then I realized this was not going to happen for several months, if ever. So, ladies and gents, here are all of my Thailand pictures, only moderately edited and barely tagged, for your enjoyment. The Buddha pictured
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Holidaze
Being on the other side of the world in a warm climate for the first two weeks of December has definitely had on impact on me regarding this year's holiday season. Yes, I know it's December 22nd, but it does not feel at all like Christmas to me; it doesn't even feel close. This, of
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Thailand Photo Teaser
I've posted my photos, but haven't yet labeled anything and am still editing. I promise to share when I'm done. Some of my favorite pics (not surprisingly) are from the market in Chiang Mai. I swear I could have stayed there all day, snapping photos and tasting the wares.
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R & R in Phang Nga Bay
We spent the last portion of our Thailand adventure on Naka Island, a five minute boat ride off of Phuket. After a flurry of activity in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, our primary goal switched to relaxation. This was fairly easy to accomplish, as we were staying in a lovely resort with our own villa and
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A Taste of Chiang Mai
It's our last night in Chiang Mai, our next stop after Bangkok. It's much busier than I expected, but it's still a nice change of pace from the hustle and bustle of Bangkok. Our first day here we spent the day cooking and eating at the Thai Farm Cooking School. We started with a visit