Archive for September 2010 | Monthly archive page
I’m always on the hunt for cool cafes, so I figured I should start documenting my finds in a specific way on the blog. My most recent strolling led me to Epistrophy in my neighborhood of Nolita. It’s actually a wine bar, but it seems to double as a cafe in the afternoon. With the [...]
For the first time in my three years of living in New York, I have a dining table—with chairs! This might seem like a lot of fuss over nothing for people in other cities, even to people in Brooklyn who know what space is. But Manhattanites deal with such little space that we start using [...]
I’m trying to make good on my promise to explore more of Brooklyn, so a few weekends ago, I ventured to Boerum Hill to have brunch with a girlfriend of mine. She’s one of my favorite dining buddies because like me, she’s vegetarian (well, I’m almost vegetarian), she prefers long dinners to bar-hopping and appreciates [...]
Besides perusing cookbooks, perusing food blogs is one of my favorite ways to hunt for new recipes. I’ve been a fan of Smitten Kitchen for a while now, but somehow, I had never got around to putting one of her recipes to good use. While my boyfriend was away for about two weeks, I had [...]
Some weeknight dinner inspiration: It’s funny how something as simple as flatbread can get me all excited. I picked up some Middle Eastern flatbread at Trader Joe’s the other day and made a pizza of sorts, topped with pesto, shredded mozzarella cheese, tofu and sauteed tomato and onions from the farmer’s market. All it requires [...]
The best part of my neighborhood is the FOOD. If you don’t think restaurants were in the criteria for my apartment hunt, you clearly don’t know me. During day one of moving two weekends ago, my boyfriend and I settled down to brunch…at 5 p.m. That’s what happens when you’re schlepping boxes and bags; you [...]