Evan Sarah Epstein

Sometimes the need for a lazy Sunday just creeps up on you. Sean and I had big plans for Sunday.  We were going to go for a nice long ride, finish cleaning and organizing the garage… but then we woke up to a gray morning.  And the gray morning turned into a gray day.  Something [...]

Among the many things the great Northwest has to offer, amazing bagels is not one of them.  And I love a good bagel, which is why I set out to make my own. After looking through multiple recipes, all very time intensive, I happened to run across a recipe in my bread machine cook book.  [...]

Last week I went to the annual Seattle Cheese Festival with a group of friends.  We went a few years ago, arriving around noon and vowed if ever we went back, it would be early.  As you can imagine, the siren call of free, delicious cheese samples from dozens of area and national cheese mongers [...]

I’ve said it before, and I will say it again: I love carrot cake, and I love finding new ways to make it.  This month’s Bon Appétit featured a recipe for carrot cake cookies with cream cheese frosting.  While I do love cream cheese frosting, I decided to go without it because they wouldn’t last [...]

I had a seriously wonderful day on Saturday – a Lou Reed Perfect Day, kind of day.  If you spent any time in Seattle in April, you know how miserable the weather was – no really, any one-day would be a good sample of the rest of the month.  Rainy, cold and dreary, with the [...]

Anyone who’s been to WSU or spent much time on the Pullman campus knows about Cougar Gold Cheese.  Now, it may sound like brain washing, but I swear, this is one of the best cheeses out there.  I started sending the stuff to my grandparents for the holidays a few years ago – and they [...]

Nothing hits the spot more than a nice calorie-dense snack while you are out on a ride or a hike, and I would be willing to wager that nothing you can find in the store can hold a candle to homemade energy bars.  My mom started making these for me while I was in school, [...]

We have a semi-Saturday morning tradition around our house.  I make some sort of breakfast food requiring more time than we have during the week; Sean makes coffee; and then we head to the living room, food and coffee in hand to lazily eat and watch TV on Hulu.  It’s one of those things that [...]

Nicole and I met while in graduate school at WSU.  In addition to having many of the commonalities necessary to be roommates, she and I found one another to be good riding partners.  In the years since, we have gone on many fantastic rides and this ride was shaping up to be another one… that [...]

I love new socks.  In fact, if I ever came into a boatload of cash, I would (after paying off my student loans of course) wear a new pair of socks every day.  Straight out of their packaging, socks are cushy and lush.  They haven’t any rough corners, no part is more threadbare than another, [...]