Warning: this is the post to end all posts, if we’re talking length. If you’re not up for tons of educational and entertaining reading, at least look at the pictures and check out the ciabatta recipe at the end!

Last Saturday Steve and I packed up the car with a few essentials–my favorite cookware, toothbrushes, and chocolate–and drove from Connecticut into New York City for the evening. My sister, Tristyn, and her husband (still weird to say!) moved into a new little apartment and we were longgggg overdue for a visit with them. I thought cooking dinner at their place would be fun for so many reasons: a chance to practice my personal chef prowess, christening their oven (just kidding?), lack of background noise from 57 other people sitting way too close together, and avoiding the gluttony that ensues when the four of us eat out together, to name a few. But what to cook? [Read more…]