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Matzo Ball Soup

There are loads of things I learned while living in New York.  How to survive, and thrive, in a 400 sq foot apartment.  How to subsist when 60% of your income goes to rent.  How to wear black in any season.  How to get to...

Champagne Cocktails

 This article first appeared on ChefJohnBesh.com. There are tons of things I didn’t know about British people before I married one. For  starters, they are incredibly funny. Not just the odd one here or there, but all of them. As  a breed. Just funny. They also...

Banana Muffins

[caption id="attachment_6324" align="aligncenter" width="523"] Photo by Gabrielle Geiselman[/caption] There are 7,890,000 results that come up when you Google  "Banana Bread Recipe" so I am comfortable with the possibility that you may not be in the market for a new one.  I am also comfortable with the...

Fish En Papillote

When I first learned how to cook fish en papillote it felt a bit like I was learning magic.  You cut a heart out of parchment paper, add a piece of fish, some seasonings, close it and bake it for 15 minutes.  When you open...

Apple, Pear, Cranberry Crisp. Or Crumble.

Running a dual nationality household isn't all fun and games.  I mean, sure, you get extra holidays (Guy Fawkes AND Thanksgiving, Christmas AND Boxing Day) but there are some annoyances too.  When our kids want to play football, I get the pigskin and LSU jerseys...

BLT. Power breakfast.

What is the opposite of a hoarder? Thesaurus.com says it is a spender, waster or wastrel (what?).   That can't be right.  Just because we don't like too much stuff we're spenders?  Isn't that how we got in trouble in the first place?  I think that we need a...

Baba Ganoush

It's a little absurd that I have a food and lifestyle blog because my two sisters are really the consummate hostesses.  They are my half-sisters, actually, born 8 and 6 years before me.  Same mom, different dads.  Their father's family is fairly posh and they...

Jamaican Jerk Chicken

  “Come out da road!” he shouted and pushed me forcefully into a rocky strip of sand as a bus came tearing around the corner. I felt a WHOOSH of air and slight vacuum left by its departure as I blinked my eyes in the sun...

Coconut Curry Carrot Soup

This is the story of a loving husband who went to the grocery store and, following the list exactly, bought "the biggest bag of carrots you can find" for his wife who, after a week of excess had decided it was time to start juicing...