‘Tis the season! We’ve decked the halls with cobwebs and pumpkins, and are so ready for the final confrontation between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers in 2018’s Halloween, directed by David Gordon Green. John Carpenter’s …
Sour Medicine (Strega Cocktail) | Pinocchio
“Are you not afraid of death?” Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio (1883) is a tumultuous and winding morality tale of a little wooden puppet who wants to be a real boy. (I was originally going to say …
Apple Charlotte | Downton Abbey
I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife’s badly cooked dinners and untidy ways. -Isabella Beeton Though Apple Charlotte never actually got made on Downton Abbey, …
Linguine with Clam Sauce | Weetzie Bat
You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can’t be anywhere except together. Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block is a glittery glam fairy tale, full of enchanting characters living deliciously on a …
Codfish Pudding | Peter Pan
Just always be waiting for me. I reread Peter Pan by JM Barrie, a book I loved as a child, a couple of years ago; it was just as sweet and funny as I remembered, …
Rosy Lemon Cakes
I had a very specific image of Sansa’s favorite treat in mind as I was reading Game of Thrones, so it took a couple of tries to get them right! I had a vision of …
Lemony White Bean Hummus | A Series of Unfortunate Events
My 9 year old, Zoeya, has snapped up all thirteen novels in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and all of us in our family are fans of Netflix’s adaptation which I have dubbed …
Rosemary Lemon Cakes
No Game of Thrones menu, especially one themed Queen in the North, is complete without the iconic lemon cakes. Previously I had made a southern Highgardenish version delicately flavored with rosewater, dolloped with a rosey …
Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese Quiche
This origin story of this quiche came from a time when both my friend and I were fresh off breakups; we were both in the bumming around phase, but were making the best of it …
Asparagus with Lemon, Aleppo Pepper and Burrata
Asparagus for dinner again. I hate asparagus. Does this mean I’ll never grow up? This is such a dead simple non-recipe, but it’s currently one of my favorite way to prepare vegetables, as elegant as …