Last night, it smelled like Thanksgiving! I know, I know. It’s early, but Texas had an influx of fall weather: cool, overcast, rainy. It was the perfect weather to be curled up inside reading (and finally getting around to reading Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow) with something hot, like…
I didn’t realize it when I wrote down a list of ingredients to purchase, but this weekend I had a few culinary firsts: first time poaching an egg, first time making rice pudding and first time trying almond milk. Although I guess in all fairness, the last two firsts go…
In a word: Delicious. And that goes for all kinds. My first night in Cambodia, after getting settled in the hotel and checking in with the world back home, my friend came to pick me up to take me to dinner with friends at an Italian restaurant they wanted to…
DC’s schizophrenic weather continues with today’s forecast calling for snow. Snow? This after the incredibly beautiful day yesterday. Granted, I still needed a jacket yesterday, and when I sat down by the pool in front of the Capitol reading my hands got more than a little cold holding my book,…
There’s nothing like baking a lot (or cooking with some complicated recipe) that makes me really wish I had one of those spacious kitchens with a very large island which would all equal one thing: lots of counter space. But I make it work. Even if that means sometimes the…
Okay. So this may be the last festival update until, well…until the festivals kick back off again in the spring. At least I don’t know of any coming up, barring the holiday market which isn’t so much a festival as an outdoor market. The Taste of Georgetown featured little bites…