Archive: August 2009

Tribeca Yummy Mummy Turns 1! and celebrates with a Chocolate-Zucchini Cake with Bittersweet Ganache

31 August 2009

We had a big event over the weekend… our blogaversary. One year ago, Mira and I sat down to make one of our most requested recipes-the chocolate chip zucchini muffin, and this blog was born. I think some of my friends and family were relieved. They kept calling me to say that they had dreamed […]

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Vermont, Part Two

28 August 2009

Woods, farms, and, well, a construction site (made us feel right at home). Farewell, Sweet Vermont!

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Vermont, Part One

26 August 2009

With long days spent outside at the lake or on farms and the steady rhythm of coming home in the late afternoon to cook simple suppers, I have more images than words right now. Can you guess that the pace around here is a bit slower than our usual staccato in New York?

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Guest Bloggers Amy and Jack Make Tomato Tart

24 August 2009

We just missed getting to meet Amy, who blogs over at The Roving Locavore, and her son, Jack, by a days since neither of us realized that we were here in Vermont at the very same time. To help soothe the disappointment, they offered to show you how to make the tart of the season, […]

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In the Lunchbox: Brie and Balsamic Strawberry Sandwich

20 August 2009

For a few months during my sophomore year at NYU, I lived with a friend of the family, a single mom at the time who had a very demanding full-time job and was raising a two-year-old, S.. On the weekends and at night, I filled in when S’s nanny went home and her mom needed […]

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