A Salad a Day

A Salad a Day

Eating healthfully does not have to be a difficult feat of strength and will. In fact, I encourage you to create a simple salad every day based solely on ingredients you have in your house or can easily grab at your local grocer and dump into a bowl. I have been...
Recipe: Leftovers Salad

Recipe: Leftovers Salad

The East Village is not exactly known for its spacious apartments. As a matter of fact, my building, much like many of the surrounding ones, is a renovated tenement, which once contained large, shared areas, often housing hundreds of residents at a time from the late...

Colossal Shrimp – Isn’t that an oxymoron?

Before I up and moved out of my parents’ home, my mom would celebrate each of my birthdays by making linguine marinara and an appetizer of shrimp cocktail. Actually, she still whipped up my special birthday dinners even after I moved out, probably to guarantee...