Tasting Notes from the End of May

Food-wise, there’s a lot going on in Ann Arbor and on the G3 front these days. First, G3 held a little picnic on the grass to thank the lovely and multi-talented Suzanne for helping make our blog pretty. There were goat cheese and fig preserve baguettes, fresh berries and the last of the brownies [...]

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Eggrolls + Vinology: another guest post

My husband Lenny and I recently had a surprisingly lovely evening celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary. The next day he sent an email to some family and friends telling them about the great food (and wine) experience we had. So I thought I’d just steal his text and make it into a post (then Maria [...]

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What I Ate in Puerto Rico (finally)

I have been promising this post for 2 months now – I’m sure Maria and Shana thought it would never happen. I created a slideshow with photos of a lot of the food we ate (I think Lenny’s mom was getting annoyed after a while because every time our food came out I would say [...]

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favas and peas. morels and artichokes. lamb and herbs. lemon and blackberry.

Fava and peas
There are lots of great reasons to blog with other people about food, but the best reason might be that it’s awesome to cook with them. Maria, Anne, and I gathered recently for a spring dinner party featuring seasonal ingredients (as the title suggests), and ate really well. Maria hosted, made sure we [...]

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G3 Welcomes a Special Guest Star

My friend Jim is a man who enthusiastically embraces his hobbies. I don’t like to count, but we’ve known each other twenty-odd years now. In that time, he’s been a talented home-brewer, bread-baker, woodworker, bowl-turner, canoe-builder, photographer and arborist. To name just a few of his interests (or, as his long suffering wife Rita — [...]

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Spring has indeed sprung

You can probably tell that G3 has spring cooking fever. We’re having a lot of chatter lately, online and off, about things like morels (see below), asparagus, and fava beans. Much to my Saturday morning shopper’s delight, the farmer’s market is starting to produce too. It’s still not exactly promiscuous but it’s putting [...]

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Morels and more

This post could be an e-mail to Anne, who is currently loving morel mushrooms and brought some to our G3 dinner party this Saturday (stay tuned for the writeup), but I thought I’d share a little more broadly. The folks over at bluishbarn.com have been a-hunting for morels it seems, and invited others to participate. [...]

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Gnudi Photos

Haha I’m so funny (the title – get it?).
The other day I told Shana and Maria that maybe they should change the name of the blog to Gastronomical Two since I rarely make an appearance. We had an AMAZING G3 collaborative dinner the other night (I’m sure someone – prob not me – but [...]

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2nd Whole Foods for A2?

In the mood for something fresh and seasonal for lunch the other day, I mused to a colleague that it would be great if Whole Foods were to open a second branch somewhere close to central campus. Something along the lines of an Express version of the megastore, serving delicious prepared food, a salad bar, [...]

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The perfect apartment (kitchen)

An inordinate amount of my time is spent these days on ann arbor craigslist, trolling the apartments for rent section. It’s the main reason this blog, and my adopted kitchen at the boyfriend’s house, has seen little of me lately. Sure, I cooked up a little birthday brunch a few weeks ago, featuring an asparagus [...]

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