Mother’s Day is just days away, and if you’re anything like me, you’ve been getting a barrage of emails touting the perfect gifts for Mom. Sales on everything from perfume sets to pots and pans, spa treatments to sparkling tennis bracelets, have invaded my inbox. My Mamma deserves every bit of indulgence after the drama [...]
Archive for the ‘Travel’ category
May 6th, 2011
Last-Minute Mother’s Day Meal
February 1st, 2011
Same Time, Same Place, New Year, By Erin
A new year always brings with it a new set of resolutions. Resolutions to eat healthier, spend less, save more, and dedicate time with family and friends. Personally, I’m already off to a great start in the health genre, having gone one full month without any alcoholic beverages. Call me crazy, but I find that [...]
January 13th, 2011
Enduring Trends for Edible Delights in 2011
It’s here! A new year that brings with it hope, inspiration, and stretchy pants; elastic waistbands may be a necessary comfort after all the heavy meals I’ve been indulging in over the holidays, but so too are the annual year-in-review lists that tend to get published as we transition into a new calendar. Come January [...]
January 5th, 2011
The Countdown: Best of Belle 2010 (Part I)
The holidays have come and gone, and jolly ol’ Saint Nick has already made his way up your walk-ups, through your fire escapes, and dodged your doormen to drop his pressies and make it back to the North Pole in time for New Year’s. I hope you all got what you wished for and kept [...]
December 22nd, 2010
The Stuffed of Home
I’m taking to the streets this afternoon to road trip it home for the holidays with a rental car packed full of pressies, pastries, cousins Frankie and Lindsay, Mr. Mixologist and my travel-tested kitty cat, Taleggio, in tow. I’ve come to expect a seven-hour journey over the bridge and through the tunnel to blustery Buffalo [...]
September 1st, 2010
Aw shucks! I’m Un-Clammed Up.
2010 has been the summer of bivalves. In July I went clamming in the Hamptons, ate my fill, and still lugged ten pounds of sea-to-table Cherrystone Clams back to my tiny apartment fridge. It took me all night to shuck ‘em, but two days later I was back in brine at the new Mermaid Oyster [...]
July 16th, 2010
More S’mores
I’ve said before that tomatoes, corn on the cob and and watermelon are my quintessential tastes of summer. They’re the barometers by which I gage summer’s seasonal produce, and they’re the foodie taste sensations I covet the rest of the year long. But I have also culled a list of summertime sweet treats that reside [...]
July 13th, 2010
A Moveable Feast: Adventures with the FOOD Maven
I’m just back in the Big Apple after an extended wedding weekend in Vermont, where I baked and assembled a tower of 250 cocktail-inspired cupcakes cupcakes (think Brandy Alexanders, Bourbon Manhattans and Carmel Cappuccino Creams)! Sorting through my many wedding photos I got to thinking about all the travel images I collected this past Spring, [...]
June 11th, 2010
Freshly Laid
From the beginning, I’ve made my love for eggs of all kinds no secret on this site. Quail egg toasts have become one of my favorite signature hors d’oeuvres, and I’ve shelled out a small fortune for spring-hued Araucanas. Needless to say, I’ve been spending a lot of time around a certain egg farmer lately–at [...]
May 6th, 2010
A Campaign for Fish Sauce, by Nini
A few months ago during one of our many girlie-girl kitchen gatherings, Kimberly and I were pondering a much unexpected and under-contemplated question, “Do you prefer soy sauce or fish sauce?” Being that I’m Vietnamese, it would be obvious to most that I’d prefer fish sauce. But when Kimberly ecstatically replied, “Fish sauce, no question!” [...]
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