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On Boereg, aka “Cheese Things.”
It may take me a while to get to things sometimes, but I think I’m a gal of my word. I promised you the recipe to boereg, the one that has made my mother famous, so here it is: Boereg Makes twelve squares 1 ½ pounds mozzarella cheese, shredde...
Is it Weird That…
…I froze my mother’s leftover Thanksgiving turkey bones and drove them* from New York to Massachusetts? Is it strange that when I got home, I chopped the bones up so they’d fit in my stockpot with carrots, carrot greens, a hacked-...
Five Things About Me: 51 52 53 54 55.
51. My conditioner-to-shampoo ratio is incredibly unbalanced. I’d say it’s about four parts conditioner to each half part shampoo. Let’s put it this way: I’m still on the same shampoo bottle that I brought to Europe in Aug...
There is Nothing Good About Being in a Car Accident…
…but it is nice to come home afterward and discover something like Amazon’s nominees for the best book cover of 2009. I happened to read Jonathan Tropper’s This is Where I Leave You not too long ago (at my dear friend Amee’...
My Version of a Traditional Thanksgiving.
We spent Thanksgiving at my parents’ this year, which is the first time in two years that Keith and I have even been around for the holiday. (Last year we were in England; the year before we were in Spain.) On Thursday, Keith telephoned his bro...
Food Diary, Vol. 2: Day Seven.
11.00 – 11.30 am: Breakfast of black olives, salami, baguette, pita bread (which in my house we just call bread), Tomme Crayeuse and Brebis Ossau. 1.42 – 2.06 pm: More olives, salami and pita bread, plus some Armenian string cheese, which...

