An astrological concept, a Saturn return is considered a time of great upheaval — “growing older, burning out at work, increasingly higher bills, a couple of monumental life milestones,” as the astrologer Aliza Kelly has put it. According to NASA, it takes Saturn about 29.4 years to orbit the sun — or for it to…
When I’m tired and hungry and there’s nothing promising in the fridge save for a half-dozen eggs, there’s always breakfast for dinner. Scrambled eggs on toast or a crisper-clearing frittata are dependable, self-assuring standbys. And if I also have a couple of strips of bacon, a generous scoop of orzo and a bit of Parmesan,…
Good morning. I like a savory breakfast on the weekend — maybe a bowl of congee studded with peanuts or a roast beef hero with gravy and mozzarella. Occasionally, there’s a mad dash to Queens for early doubles at Trinciti or a first-in-the-door shrimp and grits at Bubby’s in Manhattan. Those are nice mornings. Conversely,…
Egg lovers, rejoice: This week we’re talking breakfast for dinner, a beloved genre of cooking and a subject that several of you requested when I asked if you were interested last week. (Sample reader email in my inbox: “Brunch, brinner!! All breakfast edition YES!”) I loved making the recipe list for this week’s newsletter because…
I’m a big breakfast person, but I don’t tend to eat it in the morning. To me, the magic of runny eggs with buttered toast or a piping hot bowl of creamy steel-cut oats is best enjoyed languorously at the end of the day, not in that semi-caffeinated fog typical of a weekday morning. I…
I didn’t grow up in a breakfast household — not in any traditional sense, anyway. It was both a requirement and an afterthought: a stop at the gas station for some packaged muffins or the Cuban bakery for a ham croqueta in a roll, often eaten in my dad’s car on the way to school….
