I just got back from a relaxing mini vacation in Albany and I’m back with a great recipe for garden salsa. Lou’s family has a small garden where they grow tomatoes (two kinds), Hungarian wax peppers, lots of basil, jalapeño peppers, green beans, and squash: Lou has a great recipe for salsa, so we picked […]
Now that the year is practically over (how did August creep up on me like that?) it’s time to assess the damage on my goal of dining at every Michelin-starred restaurant in New York. Luckily, I’ve been to a bunch of them previous to this year (and I decided I wasn’t going to repeat a […]
Since my mom’s in town for a couple of days, we decided to have a little dinner with some of her friends and their children. My mom made lots of dishes, including her version of jap chae, fish, tofu with preserved duck eggs, a cold cucumber dish, and mung bean noodles with peanut sauce. My […]
For our birthday, Laura treated me and David to the tasting menu at The Modern. She decided to take us to The Modern because she knew it was on my list of Michelin restaurants and wanted to help me cross one off the list. What an amazing friend, right? We went around the middle of […]
So it’s been a month and a half since Laura, David, and I celebrated our birthday at The Modern and I really did have intentions of writing about our wonderful dinner there, but my mom is in town and we just finished a wonderful dinner party (I’m still nibbling on the cold dishes as we […]
