Brooklyn’s finest beverage, the egg cream, gets a boozy makeover with the addition of hazelnut-flavored liquor, Frangelico. The egg cream has a long and storied history in the very borough where I now live. That history includes neither cream nor egg. I drank egg creams now and then as a kid, the granddaughter of a […]
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Spicy Red Cabbage and Quinoa Slaw
I’m a persistent student of what to have for lunch. With this little salad, I think I’ve reached a new grade level. It’s light but substantial, fun yet everyday, colorful and full of vegetables. Like kale, cabbage is a great base for a make-ahead salad because it becomes more delicious the longer it marinates (rather […]
Mixed Grains Bowl with Scallions and Sautéed Radishes
We got our first CSA box this week. The yield so far is manageable, but on Wednesday night, after the pickup, our fridge went from a vessel of condiments and leftover meatballs to a box filled with chard, kale, Chinese broccoli, arugula, and much, much more. It took about an hour to wash, prep, and […]
Whole Wheat BBQ Chicken Pockets
When we started Big Girls, Small Kitchen, we didn’t do any real market research. That’s typical of blogging, or at least it was in 2008. We simply figured that other twentysomethings suffered from the same limited resources–space, time, money, skill–that we did. We tried to sympathize with their cooking hang-ups and hoped they would sympathize […]
Creamy Linguine with Mint, Thyme, and Lemon
You know how when you learn a new word, you suddenly hear it everywhere–in books, articles, and coming out of people’s mouths? Or how, when you make new friends, you don’t know what you spent your Saturdays doing before you met them? When I was in school, I loved the convergence of different subjects, how […]
The Salad [Dressing] I Can’t Get Enough Of
As much as I love eating chocolate, cooking spaghetti, and sharing cookies with friends, I don’t love reading about food. I haven’t read Anthony Bourdain or Feeding a Yen or anything by Julia Child. My foodie reading taps out after recipe intros and exposes about processed food (which, okay, I could read about a million […]
Stir-Fried Napa Cabbage with Soba and Soy-Sesame Sauce
The other day, I accidentally went to Flushing, Queens. From Bayside, Queens, which is really far away from Prospect Heights, I got on a Q27 bus in the wrong direction. Twenty-four years of life in New York is apparently not enough to inoculate against public transit mishaps. In Flushing sits one of the city’s three […]
White Bean & Arugula-Walnut Pesto Tartines
Last week, I’d finally had it with the old, super-tiny photo of me that I’d been using as my internet avatar and in the about section of this site. In the image, I’m not even looking at the camera, and my poor cropping job has severed my lower arms. Call me vain, but as someone […]
Crispy Potatoes with Baked Eggs and Pesto Yogurt
So. We’re off to Thailand on Friday. I have a new striped maxi dress, a hat with SPF50 fabric that somehow still manages to look stylish, a plan to see Chiang Mai, Angkor Wat, Bangkok, and Krabi, and Not Derby Pie‘s recommendations for eating khao soi, pad kee mau, lard na talay, and kai jiew pu. I […]
Brown Butter Broccoli Spaghetti
Sometimes, when I walk into our apartment building, I can smell someone else’s broccoli cooking. This does not bode well for my own appetite. Broccoli, let’s not forget, is cruciferous, and cooking the vegetable can evoke cabbage in the least flattering way. But the scent of other people’s broccoli–as well as other people’s delicious, delicious […]