Hip Chick Digs

I am back in the college world and, although this time I am a grad student, the college tradition of every meal being a potluck lives on. The overall quality of potluck dishes seems to have increased from chips and salsa to things like homemade tiramisu.
Since we are all busy these days with piles of [...]

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A few years ago I lived in Barcelona, Spain, for about a year and I never tired of the simple Spanish tortilla - something more like a quiche and not at all related to the thin thing you wrap a burrito in. The traditional dish is typically made with olive oil, eggs, potatoes and not [...]

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I kind of disappeared from the online world last week when my mother-in-law arrived in New York to spend the holiday with us. Our days leading up to Christmas were filled with fabulous dinners and long walks through the bright city.

We were lucky to have a little snow leftover from the previous weekend. Central Park [...]

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It is freezing here! The temperature has been somewhere between 16 degrees and the low 30’s all week, for which I feel wholly unprepared. I didn’t have nearly enough time to try to fatten myself up for winter. Florence, one of my hens, is still half molting. Winter has just come a few weeks earlier [...]

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My final design review for the term is this afternoon and we needed some snacks to serve for our guest reviewers. I wanted to bake a seasonal bread, but this is the time of year when seasonal produce is slim pickings. Cranberry hazelnut bread sounded like the perfect solution.

I picked up the dried cranberries and [...]

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