It’s no secret, hands down, my favorite restaurant in Nashville is Mas Tacos Por Favor. I would choose it over all the current critically acclaimed Nashville restaurant names: Husk, Etch, even Rolf & Daughters (the latter two being my other favorites when money isn’t too tight)! Mas Tacos is located in a “currently-it’s-going-through-a-regentrification” neighborhood across the …
Last Summer I posted my tired and true pesto recipe. I’ve been making my pesto recipe for so long, I could probably make it with my eyes closed (though I do not recommend doing this). I stumbled across a recipe for Genovese basil pesto in the 2013 July/Aug issue of La Cucina Italiana Magazine. The article …
When I lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan, my old bff and I used to be once-a-week regulars at an Irish pub called O’Duffy’s. She (conveniently) lived across the street and we’d have our standing Wednesday night date to complain to Chris, our neighborhood bartender, about everything happening in our Kalamazoo lives. We’d belly up to the ornately carved bar and drink Bombay Sapphire …
I sit and type this post from one of the most beautiful places on the planet. Not even lying folks, this is my current view: I’m both lucky and unlucky enough to have a sister who lives in Big Sky, Montana. I’m lucky, because it’s truly a beautiful evergreen gem of a place to visit; …
Every place we visited while in St. Martin sold French bread baguettes. Seriously, from the checkout line at the grocery store to the checkout line at the gas station, French baguettes were everywhere. And what a perfect seaside lunch too; a baguette, some meats and cheeses, fruit and maybe a couple of beers or a …
I must miss the tropical paradise of St. Martin just a wee bit, because I have seriously been craving Caribbean pineapple coconut drinks! With a forecasted low in the 30’s tomorrow morning, I’m hoping it’s possible to will Spring to arrive faster if I have a tropical drink in my hand. When I first made this …
One of my good friends just posted on Facebook today, “it’s soup season”, and I couldn’t agree more. This soup-er (ha) creamy cauliflower soup recipe is from this September-October’s issue of Cook’s Illustrated. It looks so fancy that you feel like you should get dressed up to eat it. I’m writing the recipe pretty much …
Ok, I KNOW that Fall is officially here, but it was 80 degrees here today damn it, so I refuse to put my flippy floppies away just yet! I found one last rogue watermelon, (cripes it was probably from Guatemala) at the grocery and decided to make this admittedly summery salad last week. It’s so …
We have tomatoes coming out of our ears! Finally, the fruit we’ve been patiently waiting for since MARCH is forthcoming! I wanted to try a new tomato recipe, and I truly can’t remember, but it was either a magazine or blog post or probably both where I kept bumping into galettes. A galette is a …
The potted basil we planted a few months ago on our balcony is going crazy! Whatever shall I do? Why, make pesto, of course! Pesto is a versatile sauce that can be put on almost anything! Veggies, chicken, pasta, pizza, get pesto creative! We had a meatless Monday last week with roasted veggies (drizzle chopped …
