Cookbook of the Month: Roast Figs Sugar Snow
February’s cookbook of the month is Roast Figs Sugar Snow, a book that focuses mainly on the foods that those of us in Northern climes crave during the winter months. While we haven’t exactly had a fierce winter this year, I wanted to review this book before another year went by – I don’t find … Read more
Plums in February
I know. It’s 100% not plum season. At least, not in Boston or anywhere else north of the equator. But in flipping through Roast Figs Sugar Snow (isn’t that just the best cookbook name?) I kept seeing all these tantalizing plum recipes. Like roast plums and figs in vodka with cardamom cream. And Russian cheese pancakes with … Read more
Greatist Collaboration: Feta and Lentil Tabbouleh
Today marks the first week of my new collaboration with Greatist, a fun, relatively new to the scene website focusing on all things health and fitness. A few weeks ago a classmate of mine from Andover (who is now the health editor at Greatist) contacted me with the idea of doing a regular guest feature … Read more
Adventures in Cheesemaking
In the spirit of daydreaming about farming and all things homemade, Trevor and I have been dabbling in cheesemaking recently. I’d love to say that it’s as simple as following a recipe and that we were pretty much ready to run out and buy a cow, but making cheese is hard. It’s more science than … Read more
