Weekends can be bittersweet for ambitious procrastinators like myself. I hype up the weekends as the only time I’m ever able to do anything other than work or sleep, but I’ll usually spend the majority of the weekend watching Law & Order on Netflix, catching up on all of my favorite blogs, or other enjoyable, …
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Diplomacy cookies
As I get ready to move to another unfamiliar part of the world, it reminds me of one of my first big trips abroad. For the first half of my sophomore year, I went abroad to Jordan. I had only been to a few places in Western Europe before then, and my Arabic was not …
Pretentious
I had a discussion with a coworker about food. I probably should have known better before getting into a debate with him about anything, since this is the guy who says things like, “I thought we already killed Osama bin Laden?” “Wait, you can’t get Splenda in Baghdad?” “Kyrgyzstan…that’s like Kiev, right?”
Shabbat shalom, hey!
It’s nights like these that make me wish I was Jewish. The wonderful Yael was the gracious host for a Shabbat dinner last week. She cooked for twenty people. Twenty! A giant, juicy brisket. A trillion loaves of challah. More varieties of fresh summer salads than I thought was humanly possible to consume in one …
Cream biscuits with strawberries
Oooh. These biscuits were so good. I remember them well, even though I enjoyed them several weeks ago. Strawberries were finally getting cheap at the grocery store, but I saw a container of adorable bitty strawberries at the farmer’s market and snatched them up. The worst thing about waiting so long to post these is …
Oh, hello!
No excuses. I have to start out this post by mentioning that there should be no excuses for my lack of blogging. But… I should mention that I’ve been a bit busy lately, in the most positive way that someone can be busy. This weekend, for example, was a blur of barbecues, pride parades, frenzied …
Weekend update
I’m starting to figure out that I can’t really find the energy or time to blog during the week. I still cook a lot, but taking pictures, processing them, writing an entry and attempting to get the word out about my humble web log can take hours. And of course, it’s completely feasible to get …
Bourbon mint ice cream
Did I ever mention that I’m alcohol-intolerant?… No? Probably because I just recently figured this out. Well, I started figuring it out in college when I attempted to be one of the cool kids and get drunk at parties. Turned out I was never very good at it then. But no worries, because there’s no …
How to throw together a BBQ
Farrell and I are blessed to have a small porch with our bitty apartment. On this porch is a cheap grill, some rusted chairs, and a makeshift table fashioned from a shipping crate. So what happens when you add two scheming newlyweds and a day off from work to the mix? Farrell got a call …