Julia Child’s Crepes Suzette

Filed under: Cooking, Uncategorized

Overall: (1/5) (most likely due to user error)
Preparation Difficulty: (4/5)
Crepes Themselves (without the Suzette part): (5/5)
I made these the same day I made Julia Child’s Beouf Bourguignon, a snowbound blizzardly day of all-day cooking. I followed the recipe to the letter - even bought a food processor to do so! Orange-almond butter [...]

Julia Child’s Boeuf Bourguignon

Filed under: Cooking, Uncategorized

Overall: (4/5)
Preparation Difficulty: (3/5)
I have come to cooking slowly and roughly. From being mocked in college for my queer dishes (kielbasa with sauerkraut, plus mustard and BBQ sauce mixed throughout, anyone?) to my more adventurous attempts (inedible Chinese stir-fry; inedible due to the 4 hot peppers I put in), I have experimented, invented, and [...]

Tea by Two

Filed under: Restaurants

Overall: (5/5)
Confession: I have never liked tea. What I remember of tea is from my childhood - my grandfather’s Lipton, with half the cup being milk rather than tea. As an adult, I’ve avoided tea - I called myself a coffee girl, not a tea girl. So, when some friends suggested we have a ladies [...]

Blog Focus

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So, I haven’t written in a while because I’ve been struggling with the focus of this blog. It kind of bothered me to be so personal, because strictly speaking this is a professional site for my freelance writing.
Well, I finally figured out.
I’ll write reviews. Reviews of anything and everything, from restaurants to movies and from [...]