by Julie | Jun 24, 2009
Dave’s birthday is in January. So if I think of a good gift for him in late Spring, I’ve either got to wait 7 months, or come up with some other occasion. And so it was that I decided to make Dave bitters for Father’s Day. He’s not my father,...
by Julie | Jun 23, 2009
There is a reason I don’t usually take photos of the good dinners I make. Tasty dinners are often kind of ugly, plus the lighting at night is just awful and it makes the food look even uglier. But, knowing that, I took a photo of this anyway, and I’m...
by Julie | Apr 28, 2009
Lately I’ve been kind of obsessed with making savory vegetarian burgery cake things for dinner. I don’t know where this came from, but every time I see a recipe and accompanying photo in a magazine, it looks like the best thing ever to me. They’re...
by Julie | Apr 8, 2009
I eat this salad for lunch every other day, and sometimes for dinner too. It takes 12 seconds and seems kind of restauranty, or at least seems restauranty to someone like me who never eats in restaurants. Here’s all it is: spinach (we like Olivia’s...
by Julie | Apr 7, 2009
A week ago, on my birthday, Eli and I decided to do some birthday browsing at our local bookstore, which is something we haven’t done in forever. I was feeling all birthday-happy and decided to get the boys some stickers. They love stickers so much but...
by Julie | Mar 29, 2009
Two weeks ago the New York Times Magazine published a riff on an old popover recipe, which they called Sugared Puffs. Dave very thoughtfully left the Magazine open to the recipe and did everything short of circling it with a red pen and highlighting the words...
