ecce's here!

new york is grand again.

to celebrate her return,
i made the following:

red lentil soup with kielbasa
and
chocolate orange pudding--this was a serious treat, and you need to make it now.

Chocolate Orange Pudding
adapted from Gourmet.

1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
3 1/2 ounces fine-quality orange-flavored bittersweet chocolate
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Possibly the last thing I want to do anymore is type and stare some more at a screen. I want to update you all on my life, but to craft a post anymore takes more effort than i can realistically muster. Of particular relevance, this morning I purloined Brian's copy of the New Yorker, in which there was an article about the practice of writing in a ( Read more... )

jose: looks like everybody dressed up today as a human being--very original.

wow. i am incredibly lucky and grateful to have friends that will take/accompany me to amazing places and events that i would not think about going to by myself.
sunday-tour de bronx bike ride with sebastian
tuesday-surprise morrissey concert with gabriele
          - and run in with chloe sevigny

sunday-impromptu invitation to ballet with ardi
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zucchini bread, adapted from heidi's recipe--I only had two zucchini ( Read more... )

whenever i see lillian my heart does this little soaring jump. never have i ever felt so much love for a little girl. celeste once in a while brings her daughter in when she doesn't have school and nobody can watch her at home ( Read more... )

as much as i love vacation, i enjoy the banalities of work.

i have a darling little plant sucking water from a red bull can. will it grow tall and strong, fiercely, at a rapid pace???
-tori

today we saw the most beautiful scene as we were driving around the suburbs of arequipa ( Read more... )

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it is just one crazy weekend after another. let us consider the fact that right now i'm running on two hours of sleep, hence the reason i am up at 6:02 am in the morning--but, wait! where did the rest of those, perhaps, four prior hours go? really, i don't know. a lot of it was spent tossing and turning (on a comfortable bed, freshly made, honestly ( Read more... )