Hello, hello! How was your weekend? We had a good one. The advent calendar has been a huge success, and there have been crazy amounts of excitement every morning. It's so much fun to have a six-year-old. Amid the flurry of getting a tree and holiday decorating, I made some cranberry panna cotta - a very seasonal dessert! It requires only six ingredients and takes about 15 minutes to prepare. Stick it in the fridge overnight, and you've got loveliness that's a consistency somewhere between ... Read more

Creatures of habit comprise our little household. Every day, we follow the exact same bedtime routine. Every Saturday, we go to the same cafe for breakfast. Of course, we almost always order the same things. And every Sunday, I make mini pancakes. It is the way of things for us. We adore routine. I've been making these pancakes for years, and along the way I've experimented with various recipes and settled onto this one that is pretty much all mine at this point. They are ... Read more

I have rarely had a traditional Thanksgiving dinner... Growing up, my mom made sushi for T-day, though as I grew into my teens, big turkeys started to appear next to the sashimi. And for the last couple of years, due to work or lack of motivation, we went out for Chinese food. I know. Sacrilege. This year though, I'm cooking. It'll just be the three of us because we avoid travel during Thanksgiving week (we had a harrowing travel experience five years ago and vowed never to subject ... Read more

Happy Veteran's Day! I have been sick all weekend, but am slowly recovering. K has the day off today, so I wanted to share these darling little treats before we head out the door for the aquarium. I have Mark Bittman's original How to Cook Everything, and used the basic biscotti recipe, then threw in 1/2 a cup of chopped marcona almonds and 3/4 cup of mini chocolate chips (left over from this). The online version of the recipe is a little different from the book in that it omits the step ... Read more

I made some chai... The summer I turned twelve, my parents took me and my brothers to India and though it was so long ago, I still have visceral memories of Delhi: the energy, the overwhelming people, the infusion to the senses, the colors...but most of all I remember hazy mornings by the train station or walking along crowded streets with sonorous chants of "Chai, chai, chai" from seemingly every direction. I had quite a few of those little clay cups that were unceremoniously tossed to ... Read more