by Deborah Quinn | Jul 11, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, environment, expat, Travel
I have a new coffee table. Big and square, it’s exactly the right height to rest my feet on while I sit on the couch. I have a new dining table, too, and in the kitchen cabinet there’s a new mixer—one of those fancy standing mixers with an attachment for mixing bread...
by Deborah Quinn | Mar 3, 2013 | Books, family, food, growing up, Kids, Parenting
Yesterday around dinner time, I asked Liam if he wanted chicken in a tortilla or just plain chicken with rice (I know, what a dazzling array of options. Don’t tell Ina Garten; she’d just feel threatened). Liam, sprawled on his bed in his fuzzy bathrobe,...
by Deborah Quinn | Dec 12, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, food, Monday Listicle, UAE
Mid-December and the madness is upon us: students trapped in end-of-semester zombie-state, with circles under their eyes down to their jawlines; piles of (as yet ungraded) papers; emails from Grandma asking what the boys want for Christmas presents; a round of holiday...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 25, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, expat, family, food, lost in translation, NaBloPoMo, UAE
I left most of my cookbooks in New York when we moved out here. With epicurious and all the other food websites (dinnerdujour, anyone? or the fantastically named ezrapoundcake?) I figured I could use that space to pack more of Caleb’s important Sticks and...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 2, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, food, NaBloPoMo
I cook at lot in the fall. Something about that first chill in the air that makes me want to get all Ma Ingalls and make big pots of rib-sticking food, much of which I freeze for the winter months. Of course Ma Ingalls didn’t have a freezer but you take my...
