Some New Yorkers will tell you that the best way to eat a bagel is with cream cheese, lox, tomato, red onion, and capers. This is the New York classic that you should get whenever visiting the Big Apple. Lox is one of the best foods to grace our brunch plates and bagels. If you’ve never had a smoked salmon eggs benedict and see it on a menu at your next brunch venue – order it. You’re welcome. But as delicious as this seafood delicacy is, it can be expensive to always ord

I’m really excited about this blog post (double-whammy blog posts) because I didn't write it! This post comes courtesy of my younger goofball brother Mark. You’ve all met him somewhat virtually in some of my previous posts but now I’m very excited that he is contributing content to my blog. I’m such a proud sister. May I present to you - my first guest recipe post. Food is an important tradition in my family. It is something that brought my mom, dad, and sister into the kitch

It’s been a while. School has been stressful beyond belief and my job has just been emotionally draining. It’s been hard to really sit down and write blog posts but I’ve been cooking and baking still and my camera is slowly filling up with all these pictures I keep taking. As I’ve said in my past few posts, I’ve been fairly stressed and slowly overwhelmed with just general life things. But things are looking up, I have been in the hunt for a new job and I just accepted a new

Le sigh. This semester has been a mess and as I’ve been delving into academic articles and homework, I watched as my lovely blog withered from lack of attention. But it’s not that I’ve forgotten about my blog and have been neglecting it on purpose. My camera is chock full of food photos (that I still have to edit) but the problem is finding time to write. However, I’m finally setting some time aside to write because if I let this blog shrivel up and waste away on the interw

This has been quite a long week, but it was a good one since I celebrated my 26th birthday! Though getting older isn’t as exciting as it used to be when we’re younger, I’m still looking forward to another of adventures, particularly of the food variety. I want to be more adventurous with the food I cook at home and also the restaurants I go to. I’m considering this a New Year’s resolution and birthday revelation extravaganza. I want to try as many new recipes as I can—now

Hooray it’s Friday. More hooray, it’s the Super Bowl. Well, actually I take that back. I’m cancelling the Super Bowl this year. You know what, 2018 is just cancelled. Okay I will stop being dramatic. BUT—as a Giants fan this is the worst Super Bowl that could have possibly happened. I detest both teams with a burning passion. I hate the Eagles as an NFC rival and I hate the Patriots…just because. I guess I’m just tired of seeing them in the Super Bowl. Regardless of

Happy New Year! I hope your 2018 is off to a great start and is filled with good fortune and good health. I have a good feeling about this year. Not sure how to describe it, but great things are going to happen. My first semester of grad school is in the books and I’m ready for adventures this year. But I can’t wait to see what foodie noms this year has for me. I’m currently working on a list of all the different restaurants I want to try and are a wide variety of recipe

So I know I have been pretty MIA and all, but did you think I would miss out on Treat Tuesday? No way! Crazy to believe this is the fourth Treat Tuesday I’ve posted, which means my blog is just about 5 months old. Time flies. For this Treat Tuesday I have a holiday special for you: Gingerbread Cookies! Since we’re now in full Christmas spirit time, a gingerbread cookie recipe seemed perfect since these are one of the most the traditional types of cookies for the holiday

First things first, I need to apologize for the lack of posting these past few weeks. Work has been pretty hectic (I sort of got promoted to acting team lead-yay!), school is in finals mode (send help), and I just found out I have mono. Things are pretty peachy in my world, right? Anywho… It’s starting to (finally) get cold outside, which means it’s time to turn your heat on, stock up on comfy socks, and make some cozy soups. Winter is the best season for comfort food: s

It’s the first Tuesday of the month and do you know what that means? Treat Tuesday! This month’s special is a Double Chocolate Cupcake. There’s a fun background to these actually. So I found the recipe online many many moons ago—okay maybe like six years ago but I like to be dramatic every now and then—and the recipe called these cupcakes “Better Than Sex” Chocolate Cupcakes, which is a pretty grandiose statement, but I can assure you these cupcakes are sure damn deliciou

Boo! Scared you, didn’t I? No? Well you’re no fun—just kidding! Happy Halloween, friends. Even though Halloween falls on a weekday, I hope you still have the opportunity to dress up in costume. My office is throwing a Halloween party today, so I’m excited to dress up. Today I’m a broken ventriloquist doll—what do you think? One thing I really enjoyed during Halloween was trick or treating. Why is it not okay for adults to trick or treat too? I want candy! Now being

I want to start with a disclaimer that this review is not sponsored by Hello Fresh and I am writing this of my own capacity with the full intent to be completely honest. I actually received a $30 gift card from Hello Fresh in one of my Chegg textbook shipments, so I decided to give it a shot. With regular prices at $60, why not try it for a reduced price, right? The meal delivery services are really taking households by storm offering convenience and ease of going grocery s

I have done it. I have used up all the apples from my apple picking adventures. It took me a while and I’m honestly so surprised they stayed fresh as long as they did, but they are now all gone! I might be appled out for a while too, but it was worth it to bake with them. And I’m pleased to share the latest apple recipe for your fall desires—Homemade Apple Cider! Apple cider is probably the most fall drink there is. It can be enjoyed warm or chilled and is so homey and c

Today is special for two reasons: one, it’s Friday and this weekend is going to be a blast and two, it’s my grandma’s birthday today! I’m dedicating this recipe post to her since after all—she’s the one who taught me how to make it. My grandma is a remarkable woman and a fantastic cook. Growing up in Brooklyn I would spend weekends at my grandparents’ house a few blocks down and she would make all sorts of foods for me. My personal favorite is her French fries. They’re c

My brother Mark visited me this past weekend and we cooked up a storm. The entire weekend was spent exploring DC, playing video games, and cooking. There was some sleep too, but my apartment smelled great the entire weekend. I have oodles of recipes that I will be sharing with you in the next few weeks, but the one I’m most excited about is CHILI! I love chili. It’s one of my favorite things to make in the fall—well actually I love to make it year round, but it seems extra ap

When I look back at how I drank in college my liver hurts. I’m no longer the spry 21-year old who could do a bunch of shots and wake up the next morning feeling completely fine. Now I have maybe two or three glasses of wine and I hurt the next day with a pounding headache. So what are the best ways to cure a hangover? Food! Well food and maybe a couple of Advil, but food is a great way to make that hangover go away. And today I’m in need of a hangover cure. I would go out to

Happy Treat Tuesday! I can’t believe September flew by that quickly. This whole year actually seems to be rolling by pretty quickly and so far, it’s been a pretty great year. I mean—I’m already in my second Treat Tuesday of the blog and my blog is about two months old! I first want to thank you all for visiting the site. It can be a bit scary just opening up to everyone on the internet and putting yourself out there, but the encouragement I’ve received from family, friends, a

Happy Monday, everyone! Hope you had a restful weekend. Even though it was the first weekend of fall it felt a lot like summer. DC takes a while to cool down and really get into the fall feeling. Where is my cool crisp weather? I’m ready for it, please. I’m still reeling from the heartbreak of both my football teams losing this weekend. That’s the nature of the game, though—there has to be a winner and a loser. I just wish my teams were the winners this weekend (although my f

Shanah Tova everyone! Tonight is the first night of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Get your shofars out and ring in the year 5778. An interesting fact about the Jewish calendar is that it is lunar based, which is why the holidays fall on different days every year. I remember when Hanukkah fell on the same day as Thanksgiving (appropriately renamed Thanksgivingukkah) and it was an incredible feast. Turkey and latkes? I might just do that every year and no one can stop me.

I wish the weekends were longer. Two days doesn’t seem enough time to do all the fun things I want to do or even enough time to catch up on sleep. Although I did find the time to bake this weekend. These past few weekends I have been on a baking/cooking spree. What can I say? It’s just so much fun. So I went apple picking nearly two weeks ago and I still have apples left over! I’m running close to the end of my apple haul, but they just take up so much of my already limite