My friend was having a terrible day, so despite my exhaustion after a long and very cold bike ride, I grabbed a protein bar and braved the subway to have dinner with her in Park Slope. Am I glad I did, for we discovered a fantastic Italian place around the corner from her called Sette Enoteca E Cucina (3rd St and 7th Avenue ( Read more... )

At dolabellae's request:

( Recipe for Pumpkin Cake With Sage Ice Cream )

Have been rather exhausted in aftermath of a small dinner party I hosted on Monday. It was a good deal of fun, no small thanks to the copious quanities of good wine poured all around. (Enough that I managed to smash my first wine glass in 4 years. Ah, well. No one was injured, at least, but now I'll have to track down what kind of glass it was so I ( Read more... )

Very easy and tasty recipe if you should happen to have miso lying around your fridge ( Read more... )

A while ago I came across a recipe for harissa, a spicy Moroccan sauce that's a wonderful marinade and accompaniment for... well, everything.

Harissa
1 1/2 tablespoon coriander seeds ( Read more... )

I recently discovered that there's a farmer's market every Friday morning near my apartment, and have been going rather religiously. Right now the selection is fantastic, with gorgeous produce that gleam like gems in the sunlight. But where gems are cold and hard, these give off a warm fragrance that perfumes the entire block. I had to prevent ( Read more... )

It was my friend's birthday Friday, so we finally took her out to dinner tonight. (Busy girl - tied up Friday *and* Saturday night!) She chose a place near her apartment called Bogota, out in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I didn't want to bike there, because I need at least one day off from riding each week. But as I want to do a long ride tomorrow, and I ( Read more... )

Ice cream ( Read more... )

I had a run-in with the biggest jackass of all time this morning ( Read more... )

Today I rode my Sirrus to Prospect Heights to eat dinner at Beast. It was overcast and a little windy when I left, but the weather proved to be brutal on the way there. I had terrible headwinds all the way down the Manhattan west side greenway, and then the Brooklyn Bridge... *shudder.* The wind, the rain, the swaying bridge. Yes, there's a reason ( Read more... )