Pomato Revival

It’s amazing, the happiness that comes with a little cake, cream, and chocolate. Pastry cream and ganache, I’ve realized, are especially handy when you’re looking for a little happy-making. Last week was Joe’s birthday, and the only thing he asked for was a homemade version of the Brooklyn Cream cake at our favorite bakery, Ladybird. […]

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    St. Joseph’s Day (la festa di San Giuseppe) is a big deal in my family. For starters, saints’ feast days are taken much more seriously in Italian culture than they are here (where they’re not really acknowledged outside of St. Patrick’s Day–oh, today!). We receive cards and phone calls on our namesake’s feast […]

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I used to think I was a good cook before I met my husband. I’d mastered most of the comfort foods I’d grown up with by the time we met—pastas, meatballs, cutlets—and thought it was more than most single girls could say for themselves. And I could follow directions well, which is why I clung […]

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It rained yesterday. All. Day. Right after that beautiful kind of spring Saturday that gets you excited for warm weather and ice cream cones. Such a nice Saturday that we fired up the grill to celebrate the beginning of the season. Now this. So I tried to embrace this shut-in day by giving winter one […]

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Talking about Polly-O String Cheese got me thinking about all the junk that filled our lunchboxes in the 80’s. I’m sure most of that stuff still graces lunchboxes today, but there was something about the 80’s, when everything was synthetic neon–from our food to our headbands–that makes me think of them as the heyday of […]

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