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Authentic French Toast

December 7, 2022

A previous version of this post for Authentic French Toast was published in May 2013. We updated the recipe with new photos. For Mother’s Day Fatima and I made a delicious breakfast for my mom. She only had a few requests for the menu, one of them being french toast. I love french toast. Rather than making the same egg mixture for her, I wanted to try something new. Enter Martha…

December 7, 2022 By Brian

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St. Germain Cupcakes

June 4, 2013

Ummm, YUM! I first had St. Germain when my friend Stephanie (check out Pop! Goes My Culture) got me out of the kitchen and onto Governor’s Island in NYC for the Jazz Age Lawn Party. It was magical. I had a cup of the St. Germain Cocktail, and after the first sip, I fell in love. Lucky for me (and for you), I entered a photo of the event in…

June 4, 2013 By Brian

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Mother’s Day

May 16, 2013

Today’s Throw back Thursday highlights the delicious breakfast Fatima and I made for my mom for Mother’s Day. All she wanted to do for her day was to 1.) have a great breakfast 2.) go for a bike ride and 3.) spend the afternoon at one of our town’s vineyards. Who better to make your breakfast than Fatima and me? The day before – grocery shopping. My mom had only…

May 16, 2013 By Brian

Our Home/ Side Dishes

New Bed Spread

April 30, 2013

We finally got a new bed spread! When we first moved in, we were using my old gray and red bedding I got when I first moved to the city. Very masculine, I liked it but Fatima did not. It was made for a twin bed. When Fatima moved the rest of her stuff into the apartment, we outfitted the bed with her duvet set – too feminine. It worked; it was…

April 30, 2013 By Brian