Savvy Eats

I learned a lot about life this weekend: Plumbing projects will always take longer than you anticipate. Always. On a related note, showers taken in a converted claw-foot tub feel much fancier than regular showers. A colorful purse is much cuter than a plain old black one.  Plus, it is more likely to go with [...]

I don’t know what I was thinking, going months without making risotto. For the past few months, I’ve often thought about making our favorite creamy rice dish. I’ve gone so far as to tell Dan, “I’m making risotto tonight!” only to turn around a few hours later and say, “I don’t really feel like making risotto” or “I don’t have time to make it after all.”

We learned a few very important things this weekend: 1. When removing wallpaper, a mixture of 1/3 cup white vinegar and 3 2/3 cups water speeds the process up approximately 8-fold. 2. Painting sample color swatches on the wall is a very important step in the paint selection process. The mustard yellow we were 80% [...]

Sometime between freshman and sophomore year of college, I started cooking. Nothing elaborate, but I remember spending hours one weekend browsing the recipes on Cooking Light, Epicurious and Whole Foods. I started with simple recipes: rice and beans, pasta salads, pancakes. But I still relied on many frozen, canned or packaged foods. One of the [...]

Funny story: when Dan and I first started dating nearly six years ago, he was the cook. We met in his dorm floor’s kitchen to make chicken enchiladas during our freshman year. Sophomore year, Dan had an apartment, and would cook chili or a corn-ground beef-rice dish that we loved. I rarely, if ever, cooked. [...]

Two years ago, my blog was still a baby. I was chronicling everything I ate, something I quickly realized wasn’t the right fit for me. Occasionally, I shared a recipe. I rarely link back to these recipes. Back then, my writing was a bit awkward and cheesy. My photos were small and fuzzy, at best. [...]

In high school, I almost always opted to have my family birthday dinners at Biaggi’s. We also had scholarship, college acceptance, and graduation celebration dinners there. If I remember correctly, my group of friends and I even had dinner there before the sophomore Sweethearts’ Dance. On every visit, I ordered the same dish. Every time, [...]

When I started focusing on eating more locally and sustainably, I had to give up buying the bags of big-name frozen chicken breasts that had previously been a staple in my kitchen. I knew that they came from factory farms, which I didn’t want to support. Finding local and humanely-raised poultry wasn’t difficult; there were [...]