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Reader Tips: Turn Your Apartment Into A Home
September 12, 2012 – 9:11 pm | No Comment
jump on bed

A couple of  weeks ago, we ran a post calling for reader tips for how to make your first apartment feel like a home. We got some GEM advice. To make sure you saw all …

Sam’s Favorite Cookbooks and Websites for a Novice Cook
February 23, 2012 – 11:58 pm | 3 Comments
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           For an aspiring cook there are hundred of resources, both in print and on the internet, to learn  new cooking techniques, experiment with new recipes, and experience new ingredients. When I look for inspiration, I …

Surprise Your Sweetie with a Valentine’s Day Dinner to Remember.
February 10, 2012 – 6:37 pm | No Comment
Sam Hearts

Surprise your sweetie on Valentine’s Day with a delicious home-cooked dinner. The menu: Red Wine-braised Osso Bucco with Citrus Gremolata, Parmesan Polenta and Arugula Salad.  And for the dessert, the delicious chocolates your honey brings …

Easy First Apartment Last-Minute Thanksgiving Dinner Party
November 23, 2010 – 4:40 am | One Comment
Autumn cranberries and nuts

First Thanksgiving away from home and the budget does not allow you to go “over the river and through the woods” to grandma’s house.  Instead of getting depressed and crying into your sushi  dinner after …

How to Plan a Week of Healthy Meals for $60
September 29, 2010 – 9:52 pm | No Comment
Elyse groceries

Our guest blogger Elyse is an NYU student who just recently managed to free herself from the college dormitory system.
Me and My Grocery List
The one thing I never understood in college was how quickly people …

Keep Your No-Takeout New Year’s Resolution!
January 6, 2010 – 10:19 pm | No Comment

With the end of the holiday season comes the end of free, well-prepared food. No more well-balanced, homemade meals or three-course dinners that you pretty much just have to show up to. Nope, we’ll just …

What did you think I would post about next?
August 30, 2006 – 3:39 am | No Comment

Close on eggs’ heels in the race of easy, delicious things to cook: chicken soup. No, not the Campbell’s kind. Dear reader, you’re a grown-up now, and your grown-up taste buds deserve better. …

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
August 28, 2006 – 4:04 am | No Comment

When you’re learning to cook, it’s definitely the egg.
Eggs are an easy, cheap, delicious, and nutritious thing to cook when you’re first starting out. You can scramble, boil, whip, poach, or even slurp them raw. …