Today, the happiness would have to be my most delicious lunch from Massawa, an Ethiopian/Eritrean restaurant. Chickpeas with ginger, a lovely golden spiced mixture of potatoes, carrots, peppers and broccoli, and amazing collard greens with garlic. Perfect for a day like today, when the wind is an icy burn on my skin and I can't quite get warm.

3: I spent the afternoon with my father at the Metropolitan Opera's matinee performance of Massenet's Thais starring a Christian Lacroix-clad Renee Fleming. What a lovely way to spend a chilly Saturday afternoon, warm and cozy and listening to beautiful music. The violin solo in the middle was so stunning that the soloist took his own curtain call ( Read more... )

Courtesy of boomtownrat, I discovered that U2 are releasing their new album on Monday, March 2nd. Hooray! This is the best news I've heard all week. Forgot to mention, if you have a chance to check out U2 3D, if it is still in theaters, it is amazing. Saw it at the IMAX and it was an incredibly intense concert experience.

Why is it harder than I thought to find tight, shiny black vinyl pants in New York City that actually fit me?

These are, of yet, the best chocolate chip cookies to come out of my oven. I can't quite explain how good they are, but if you're into baking, I recommend trying them. I found the recipe hereI tweaked it a tiny bit: I used pastry flour instead of all-purpose flour, all brown sugar instead of a mix of white and brown (I'd recently read that this ( Read more... )

I am suddenly quite addicted to baking. In the past couple of weeks, I have made cardamom chocolate chip cookies, whole wheat apple muffins, chocolate spice cookies, iced pumpkin cookies and chocolate cookies with chocolate chips and a chocolate peppermint glaze (a Nigella recipe). I am trying to stop myself from baking pear ginger muffins and ( Read more... )

I made these last night. They are soft, delicious and taste like the changing seasons. I highly recommend making them - it took very little time to make the dough. As always, quality organic ingredients are best. I used pastry flour.http://www.

One marvelous thing about living in New York is the deliciousness of the apples from the farmer's market. On Thursdays, I buy a huge bag of honeycrisp apples to last through the week. Right now, they are perfectly crisp, a tad sweet and a tad tart all at the same time. And they make lovely peanut butter apple sandwiches (today's lunch, on sunflower ( Read more... )

As was demonstrated in an interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any U.S. Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade ( Read more... )

In Sanskrit, there is no way of saying “thank you” or “sorry”.

Sometimes, this can be an interesting place to work.