Food 52 gives peanut butter cookies.

Lunch! Yes, please.

Man, this woman Alexandra is my hero. How’s bout brown butter brownies with sea salt? Hell, yes, please.

David Lebovitz gives us a Chocolate Buckwheat Cake. Why not?

Food 52 gives crunchy cabbage salad with miso-ginger dressing.

Bouchon Bakery’s Crepe Cake. Seriously.

Yes, Please.

[Photo Credit: Deborah Jones]

Happiness, is…

[Photo Via: Clutter and Chaos]

Dorie Greenspan’s got a couple of stores. They look worth checking out, man.  Seriously.

Alexandra does breadcrumbs. Yes, please.

Smitten Kitchen keeps things bright with this mixed citrus salad.

Spoon Fork Bacon roasts root vegetables.

Alexandra does us right with this Carbonara recipe.  Easy Peasy.

Over at Manger: Roast Sausages with Fennel.

Today is National Hot Pastrami day. Who knew?

[Photo Credit: Sign of the Pink Pig]

Alexandra’s Kitchen gives Fries with Lemon Salt and Rosemary.

Yes, please.

Pasta Alla Norma from Serious Eats.

From Smitten Kitchen, a Mediterranean pepper salad.

Photograph by Ira.

Over at Food 52, dig Suzanne Goin’s Corned Beef and Cabbage with Parsley-Mustard Sauce by Genius Recipes as part of their Seven Ways to Make Cabbage Sexy post.

How much is too much to spend on a pie? Is $35 bucks too much?

Yes, schmuck, it is. At least, the wife sure thinks so and she ragged on me all weekend for forking over that much for a salted caramel apple pie at Four and Twenty Blackbirds. We were out in Brooklyn on Saturday visiting cousins and I’ve always wanted to try this place so on our way back home I bought a whole pie.

Was it worth it? As a treat, yes. The pie is damn good. Dumb expensive but good. Not the best pie I’ve ever had but I’d rate it 8 out of 10 for sure. I got a slice of chocolate pecan pie for the wife who stopped busting my chops momentarily as she ate.

A soup…and this…

…would be fine by me.

[Photo Via: Sometimes I Drift]