July 5th, 2007 by md

There is a medium-sized list of things that I should do less. On the list is “eating butter.” However, when I saw a recipe in the NYT sunday magazine for homemade butter — alongside a compelling essay about one man’s experience with fatty, yellow heaven — I had to try it. So I just finished [...]

March 30th, 2007 by md

Full disclosure, I had to censor some of the content regarding the trip. Here are some of the things I left out in the form of a partial list of posts that didn’t make it:

Three things you don’t do at the Leper Colony on Molokai
What the labels on the toilets said never to flush
A picture [...]

March 21st, 2007 by md

From Reichl, Ruth, ed. The Gourmet Cookbook. Conde Nast Publications: New York, NY (2004).
“Buttermilk Cupcakes
Makes about 30
Active Time: 30 minutes
Start to Finish: 1.5 hours
Every cook needs one all-purpose cupcake recipe, perfect for a birthday party or bake sale. This is it. Buttermilk give these delicious little cakes a well-rounded flavor.
3 1/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons [...]

February 25th, 2007 by md

I don’t have anything personally against either Taco Bell or KFC. But I do have some advice for the franchisee of the “restaurant” located in Greenwich Village that was shut down recently for a rat infestation: cover the windows of the store so that the large groups of people standing in front of your store [...]