Drinking Something New

April 3, 2010

Sometimes wine makes me laugh. And I don’t mean after I drink too much. It’s more the descriptions of the vintage. Last night at the Chesapeake Wine Company in Baltimore I had a good laugh but it turned out the joke was on me. While wandering through the well-stocked store, with a glass of “sweet, [...]

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How To Boil Water

March 21, 2010

As a student at the University of Miami, I didn’t know how to boil water. A friend from college recently reminded me of this and remarked that it’s ironic I now write a food blog. I can remember being stymied by a box of hamburger helper. College meals consisted of raiding my sorority sisters’ fridges and [...]

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Chili Cookoff

March 13, 2010

St. Michael must have been working overtime on March 6th. As the patron saint of grocers, he was busy helping the families of St. Michael the Archangel Regional School get ready for their first annual chili cookoff. 16 families competed for the Best Chili prize at the school, located in Clayton, NJ. In addition to the [...]

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Greek 2 Love

March 7, 2010

Karen Lefebvre-Christou chopped scallions while talking in Greek to her husband Christos. He was working in Paris for the week and a bad Skype connection meant that Karen and her son Alex had to raise their voices to clearly be heard. After disconnecting, Alex worked on peeling cucumbers for our tzatziki while trying to teach [...]

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Competitive Cupcakes

March 3, 2010

Danielle Ackerman carefully placed 3 of her flame-topped Spicy Hot Chocolate cupcakes on the judging table and took a seat nearby to watch the festivities. A graphic designer and amateur baker, Danielle hoped to win first prize in the Moorestown Iron Cupcake Challenge. Bakers from the Greater Philadelphia area gathered at Tortilla Press Cantina in Pennsauken, [...]

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Checking In

February 26, 2010

As another foot of snow blanketed the Greater Philadelphia area, I made myself a big cup of hot chocolate and took some time to reflect on my New Years resolutions. –Post more frequently. Nope. Already broke this one. I think February sets a record for me for the most infrequent postings per month since I started [...]

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First Love

February 13, 2010

In honor of Valentine’s Day, I’d like to tell you about my first love. Buttercream frosting on hazelnut sponge cake baked by the Swiss Haus. At 2 years old, I fell deeply, madly, passionately in love with my birthday cake and the affair has continued for over 30 plus years. I’ve written about my birthday [...]

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Snow Day

February 7, 2010

Today was a snow day. A gigantic snow day — up to 3 feet. For some reason, all of the huge snow days this year have fallen on a weekend, thereby ruining my plans. Kevin and I took the opportunity to break down a chicken and then let it slowly saute with cumin, garlic, onions [...]

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Chrusciki Cookies

January 30, 2010

Julia Swirski James-Markowski gently laughed at me as I unsuccessfully tried (again) to remove sticky rectangles of dough from the table and fold them into twisted cookies called Chruscikis aka Polish Bow Tie Cookies. We’re at her youngest son’s Gary’s house in Baltimore and she’s shared a 100 year old recipe that her Polish mother, [...]

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Candy, and Chocolate and Ice Cream, Oh My!

January 16, 2010

I followed 3 guys wearing Chocolate Thunder jackets through the parking lot and up the stairs of the Atlantic City Convention Center where I was greeted by a 4 ft wide poster featuring a head shot of Mia Michaels, the award-winning choreographer and judge of the hit show, So You Think You Can Dance. In [...]

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