Author Archives: Kate
British Thanksgiving
What’s not to love about Thanksgiving? Americans eat mashed sweet potatoes covered in mini marshmallows, drizzled with maple syrup, then broilled / grilled to a molten goo. This is amazing.
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Tagged Apples, beans, potatoes, pumpkin, stuffing, sweet potatoes, Thanksgiving, turkey
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Maple Bourbon Cider, and the things people say at parties that kill the room stone dead.
You know the set up – a party, lots of chat, lots of noise. And suddenly somebody says something that synchs up with an infinitesimal lull, and a sentence slices through the atmosphere like a hot knife through butter. “Then … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, Autumn, bourbon, cider, cocktail, fall, party conversation killers
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A Rotarian Halloween and Whole Roasted Pumpkins with Butternut Squash Risotto – This Dinner Will Get You Laid
One Halloween when my husband was a kid, he was picked by his school to be in one of those murder mysteries that were the absolute Newest Craze – the kind that you can still buy now in a box … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn, butter, fall, halloween, parmesan, pumpkin, risotto, Rotarians
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Election Night – and a bowl of caramel rosemary popcorn
Election day, and Facebook is a hotbed of political intrigue and opinion.
The week the power went out
It was impossible to imagine it a week ago when my parents and sister arrived in New York for a holiday. We’d heard the warnings of course, stocked up with water, hunkered down. But the threat was intangible. Theoretical. And … Continue reading
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Oozing Pus Chocolate Cupcakes and the Terrible Tale of the Chocolate Truffle Poisoner
As part of his job, twice a year my husband has to get up earlier than usual, head out to a lecture hall and listen to a talk about being a responsible researcher.
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Tagged chocolate, halloween, oozing puz cupcake, poison, tall tales, truffle
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Dog Halloween – and Bobbing for Apple Punch
Expressions of their owner’s creativity and flair, Tompkins Square Park was packed with dogs parading in force to celebrate the approach of Halloween. Dinosaurs, ballerinas, ladybirds, bumble bees, bats. An inquisitive Buzz Lightyear sniffing around a princess in a tutu.
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Tagged apple juice, calvados, dog parade, halloween, halloween costume, hot apple punch, tomkins square park
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In Google Maps We Trust – Roast Chicken with Plums
So it turns out, there are 2 places that can equally be described as the corner or 4th and something in Brooklyn, but I didn’t know that as I typed the directions into my iPhone and set off across the … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken, Georgian chicken with plums, Google Maps, lost, plums, roast chicken, Russian Market, Warsaw
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Apple Crumble and Elves
It started because I bought Jon a set of espresso cups for his birthday, and wondered aloud what we could do with the saucers. Since poor co-ordination so early in the morning had been the downfall of the last cups, … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, Autumn, baked potatoes, caramel, cinnamon, crumble, elves, fall
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Better than Bears – and a comforting, yet totally date-night appropriate Greek Chicken Stew
As Fall colors start to paint the country in shades of fire, two friends of our recently returned from a hiking holiday, which they described in glowing terms apart from one small setback:
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Tagged Autumn, bears, chick peas, chicken, date night, easy, entertaining, fall, Greek, lemon, one pot, oregano, stew, tomato
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