October 2010
6 posts
Sometimes, I wish life was like a Barilla Pasta...
How to use crappy booze
Since I am not very important, and my apartment does not have many leather bound books and smell of rich mahogany, I don’t have any Scotch. So when my recipe for fish with ginger broth from Gourmet called for some, I called my boyfriend whose roommates have an extensive collection of neglected cheap liquor sitting on top of their fridge.
Kessler was the only thing he could find...
Baby's first roast chicken
With help from Martha, my mama and the Barefoot Contessa, I will now have chicken for days to come.
There’s just something about shoving a lemon and a head of garlic cut in half crosswise into the open cavity of a 4lb bird that gives you a real sense of ownership.
Taco Bell: Where happiness comes to eat
After two months of waiting, Taco Bell’s new sauces are finally available in Columbia.
Two months of waiting? Yes, I do follow Taco Bell on both Twitter and Facebook so I know what they’re planning at all times.
I do know what good Mexican food tastes like. When life is weighing me down, I often say to myself “But there’s always enchiladas…” as if I...
The Hill: Italian Disneyland
Last weekend, Justin and I took an impromptu field trip to the Hill, the Italian district of St. Louis. It’s okay to drive 2 hours for salami right?
We had a super molto bene time eating cured meats, cheese and going to Zia’s for dinner. I had the tortellini piselli and Justin had the...
Making quick dinners with XL Fishsticks and other...
This semester, I am taking a food writing class where we sit at a board room table in the Agricultural Journalism/Black Studies building and talk about how to describe Jell-O effectively or whether Michael Pollan is a nutjob or a prophet. It’s pretty great except the class is at 3:30 - 6PM. Sometimes I am so ravenous when I get home, I don’t want to spend much more than 4...
