Entries from April 2007

April 30, 2007

Mmm. End ‘o Root Vegetables

 
Spring seems to have finally decided to stick around for a while… and while I’m happy about this for many reasons, I’m sad for many more. The loss of root vegetables (the last of which were roasted for the above salad), the loss of the lettuce lady at the farmer’s market close to me (she’ll [...]

April 20, 2007

Tonight, we pretend to be French

By dining late on “French” food.

Some sort of pasta with butter, cream, and veggies (possibly cheese, I can’t remember), fresh bread with butter, radishes, and salt, and the star of the day… Zucchini with celery.
Ok, I know it sounds odd. Really odd. But my host family in Bretagne made it all the time, and [...]

April 16, 2007

Back! With Pictures!

My boyfriend loves me. You know how I know? Because he cooks for me when he comes to visit.
This is what he made me in the morning before my giant important job interview:

It’s probably self-explanatory, as is the romantic dinner he made for the roomie and I his first night here (well, also I don’t [...]

April 10, 2007

Pasta with Buttery Tomato Sauce

Dear Blogosphere,
I love you soooooooooo much. It did, in the end, take me four seperate blog posts– 4!– to convince me to attempt this recipe. This recipe that I never would have thought of on my own, and would not have noticed in an cookbook. This amazing, fabulous recipe that is barely a recipe and [...]

April 2, 2007

What do you mean no one cares what I ate for lunch?

Oh well, at least this was dinner.

Don’t those tomatoes look scrumptious for April? More on those tomorrow or the day after. The rest of what you’re looking are is sweet and sour brussels sprouts, Cooking Light’s pasta alfredo (the rest of the blogosphere seemed impressed, but even w/ my added veggies, I’d rather eat a [...]

April 2, 2007

Mmm… Tastes Like Arugula

Or perhaps the reverse. Arugula will probably always taste like victory to me.
I handed in the first draft of my Masters thesis late last night– overdue, of course, mainly due to my inability to do anything important the easy way. Of course, the first thing I did after that (well, after a night [...]