This winter I decided I wanted to try to have more people to dinner, and last night Kathleen and Sasha, friends from when I was on medicine internship, and Kathleen's fiance Josh, came over for dinner. After several rounds of emails discussing the date, time and menu, somehow we decided on 2 leek dishes in a row, which turned out to be no problemo ( Read more... )

I went to Tertulia tonight with Elissa, which I am going to review, and which also reminded me that I had 2 awesome meals I had yet to post about ( Read more... )

Last night I had Bonnie and Matt to dinner, and we had 3 things all out of Suzanne Goin's Sunday Suppers at Lucques cookbook.  The appetizer and entree recipes are below.  The dessert was just apples cooked in butter and spices and I changed it so much that it's not even her recipe, but the two things I took away were that it's nice to cook small ( Read more... )

It would be impossible to list everything I ate in the past few weeks in CA, so here is a description of just the highlights.

San Francisco (for the conference)
One of the nicest meals I had was at bluestem brasserie, where I was served a very lovely arctic char with beans and a nice sauce, but on a whim I ordered the cheese plate and got this crazy ( Read more... )

The Feast of the Alcoholic Recipe Collection

Wine
Red reduction brie en croute

Sommelier :  Kenny.  Kenny made the appertif -- Bellinis with a choice of pear juice (which I chose), mango juice, or peach schnapps.

Recipes
1 bottle minus 1 cup Beaujolais Village, reduced to 1 cup over medium heat
1 cup honey
1 brie wheel
2 croissant dough packages from ( Read more... )

Last night Chiara and I dined at Lincoln, which is located underneath the wavy, slanted field of grass at Lincoln Center. The walls are glass and the shape of the place is really asymmetric and modern.  I arrived early because I was going to stroll but it started raining, and they asked me if I would like to wait at the table - which I did.  They ( Read more... )

Today for a big meeting I brought an assortment of homemade cookies and brownies. Here are all the recipes.

Chocolate Chip cookies
Ingredients

•  1 stick butter, softened
•  1 cup brown sugar
•  3 tablespoons granulated sugar
•  1 large egg
•  2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Over Christmas I was supposed to go to Eleven Madison Park with another friend who bailed, and my Christmas gift to myself never got rescheduled until this summer, when Chiara said we should just go anyway, so we did!

We had a 6 pm reservation. We entered and were greated rather effusively by a little blond woman, and then led into a room that had ( Read more... )

 

my hand encircling your finger

i pulled back my clothes in their loosest places

and guided your touch

outlining my most tender spots

my topography taught you

where to suddenly push

to thrill or hurt me most