The River & Rail Sneak Peek
Technology issues aside (I left my camera battery charging at work & didn’t realize it till I was there and G’s backup camera had a full memory card–thankfully we deleted a few photos off the card & I was able to use his camera), G & I had a lovely time this evening at The … Read more
Truffled Butternut Spaghetti
Thanks for all the garden help, everyone, I’m definitely going to take some of the suggestions to heart! This evening I spent an hour or so weeding bed that runs the length of the house behind the vegetable boxes–I swear to something I’ve never seen such a forest of thistles. Wish they’d been nettles because … Read more
Citrus-Roasted Tofu
I’ll admit, this is nothing more than a slightly adapted recipe from Food Republic. But sometimes, someone else’s recipe just works and there’s no real reason to tweak it. I made this dish…well, before Europe…actually, I think it was right after New Year’s (oh my) since I used this amazing in-house spinach tofu from H … Read more
Part VI: Birthday in Paris
And now for the final installment (I promise a bright citrusy tofu recipe for the next post! And garden updates! And other recipes in the very close future!) of our England-Paris trip–our final day in Paris which, coincidentally, was also my 25th birthday (no really, we didn’t plan it that way, it just worked out, … Read more
Part V: Gold, Bones, & Gaspard de la Nuit
Not every meal in Paris can be “THE BEST” meal, can it? I think it can. Who is to say that, with the right preparation, one can’t eat an entirely new and amazing and utterly delicious meal every single time? Point in case, Happy Nouilles, this fantastic little Chinese place on Rue Beaubourg. The draw? … Read more
Part IV: Love Letter to Paris
Oh Paris, you’re just amazing. That view you gave us from our apartment, the windows flung open to let the evening breeze finger through? I’ll never forget it. I’ll never forget the doves (pigeons, what have you) cooing from the rooftops, Marais unfolding as a series of terra cotta roofs. And that apartment! Sure it … Read more
Part III: The “Rest” of London
It’s hard to “see” any city in only a few days, so the “rest of London” is really quite a joke, but let’s just cram in the remainder of our London segment in this post, shall we? The first evening in London, strangely enough, we saw the Queen. Yup, she’s waaaaaaay back there in her … Read more
Part II: Foodie Adventure Day (FAD) in London
Sometime a while back I wrote to Monica of Smarter Fitter and wrote I’m coming to England in March, want to meet up? That one little email wasn’t the easiest to write, I’m never sure what people actually think of me (you think I’d be over that 5 years into this blog) and I’ve never … Read more
Part I: Tiverton & Minehead
It’s incredible to think that we’re back in the US–and have been for over a week now; one of those things where it seemed like the trip might never happen (we originally bought tickets for the festival in February of 2011) and now, poof, it’s over. Ready to be parsed and digested. Or at least … Read more
Bruno’s GastroTruck–Roanoke
2012 appears to be the magical year–Roanoke gained not one, but two, food trucks. Food trucks! We’ve entered 2006 finally! All sarcasm aside, I’m incredibly stoked to see, in this case, one established restaurant and one entrepreneur-family try out the food truck model–both to success. The most unexpected one is the one I’ll recap first–Bruno’s … Read more
