Evan Sarah Epstein

With the increasing appearance of clear-ish, sunny-ish skies, my friend Nicole and I have dusted off our bikes and started riding on a semi- regular schedule again.  We recently headed out on a little tour of our city. Starting at Gas Works park, we rode west to the beach in Ballard, south to the ferry [...]

I had a love/hate relationship with this book.  I’ve been slowly reading it between other books, 20 pages here, 50 pages there.  In the end I enjoyed it, but it was a rocky road getting there. It seemed like Barbara Kingsolver got a free pass from her editor in the first couple chapters.  As if [...]

While reading this book, I kept thinking, Steel Magnolias set in a yarn shop.  I felt all proud of this realization… until I looked on the front cover and someone had already gone there.  Oh well. I’ve always enjoyed books about women’s relationships, so this book was right up my alley.  It was an enjoyable [...]

Jhumpa Lahiri is an amazing writer.  She could be describing the most mundane detail of daily life, and somehow she makes it intriguing.  I read The Namesake a few months ago and fell in love with her writing style and set out to find more from this author. If this collection of short stories has [...]

I love carrot cake.  Love.   I love it so much; it was the cake at my wedding.  I try to tell myself that because it has carrots and nuts and raisins in it I am eating something healthy for myself.  Cream cheese frosting has protein and calcium in it, right?  Sigh.  Well, because of this [...]

Sean and I have been slowly but surely teaching ourselves how to make basic foods we use often. Mozzarella is definitely one of them.  We make our own pizza when we do a pizza night, so I tend to end up buying mozzarella cheese on a fairly regular basis. A few months back we bought [...]

I love good gnocchi, but Sean does not, so when I ran across a really simple recipe for butternut squash gnocchi, I decided to go for it.  They were delicious and very well-received, but the recipe made way too much dough for two people, so the following night I decided to use the dough for [...]