The Grumpy Gourmand

I eat my feelings, and so should you! Cooking my way to zen from novice to expert and leaving a trail of delicious and easy recipes in my wake.

12/09/2022

Happy Holidays from my family to yours xoxo 🎁

03/19/2022

Re-emerging into a post COVID (maybe) world in time to celebrate some new humans I love. Also now back taking culinary requests and dares. This is a black black black Oreo black chocolate malt ball cake with peanut butter malt balls hidden inside and peanut butter buttercream frosting and a malt ball mound constructed with malt balls and paper clips and frozen in place with candied sugar. you’re only on the inside

11/26/2021

I’m still alive, but maybe not for long if I keep making and eating things like this… 🍎 🥧 Mille Feuille. Puff pastry layered with spiced creme patissiere and pumpkin whipped cream with streusel, calvados apple caramel, and apple compote by me.m and pumpkin cream cheese icecream by I’d say it’s time to go on a diet, but I’ve basically given up by now—as you can tell by this suv par photo. HAPPY THANKSGIVING 🦃 🎉 miss you. Xoxo

04/25/2020

Cookie ( Pronounced /ˈko͝okē/) Glamour Shot. 🍪💁🏻‍♂️

/ˈpēnət ˌbədər, ˈCHäk(ə)lət, CHip/

10/06/2019

🥘 is the Best 🥘 and also 🧁 and 🍰 and 🍩 and 🍪 and 🥧 📷

08/05/2019

I managed to successfully bake these black chocolate shortbread with white chocolate ganache filling by sight and not by tasting everything as I go. A not insignificant feat. There’s still hope for me yet!

05/28/2019

Winding down from ten days in Uganda as part of my board duties with the where the life expectancy of a newly diagnosed diabetic is less than a year. In the last two weeks alone we have had four of our campers pass away as a result of mismanagement, poor access to supplies, and limited community support. Yesterday, thanks to the patronage of Her Royal Highness, the Nnabagereka of Buganda, I was able to meet the Prime Minister of Uganda and led a press conference on national news highlighting several important facts that everyone should be aware of. 1) In 2020, Novo Nordisk’s program “Changing Diabetes in Children,” which funds insulin for low income children will pull out of Uganda entirely creating an avoidable humanitarian disaster that no one is paying attention to. 2) Access to life sustaining medicine, including insulin is a human right 3)children across many regions of the world (as you can see in these photos) understand the gravity of their situation, but continue to make a daily attempt to live with enthusiasm and hope that responsible adults—business people and civil servants alike—will come together to develop a thoughtful holistic strategy to ensure that these children have access to the education, supplies and support they need to live out their lives beyond their teenage years to become healthy, and productive citizens. 4) The is bridging some of these gaps today thanks to an open conversation with the govmt of Uganda and partnerships with companies, like Becton Dickinson but 5) The time to come to the table together to work on this very solvable problem is running out. If you are interested in learning more about our work please reach out to me or to If you have extra time, please consider writing to to express your concern over their decision, which is very clearly not only an ethically reprehensible decision but also very poorly thought through PR/business strategy that will definitely deliver on “Changing Diabetes for Children” by ensuring that they simply pass away @ Kampala, Uganda

03/06/2019

I built this foot tall 5 hole-vase by hand back in October and waited a month+for it to dry out before slow firing it up in kiln with the help of my amigos at Clay Space 1205 I finally refired it with 22k gold luster last week, and am pretty thrilled about how it turned out. It’s not perfect, but there are structural improvements over my last pieces that I’m proud of. Bidding starts now at $10 Million.
@ Brooklyn, New York

03/01/2019

On y vas! @ Chamonix, France

12/31/2018

So long 2018, year of great travel and adventure when I stopped waiting for everyone else to do what I wanted (at least on vacation 🤣). What a great last 6 months. I climbed solo(so dumb) to Obersteinberg to lunch on Swiss rosti and sausage alone in the mountain tops. I road horses for two days in the wide open countryside in Mexico. I went exploring with family in Italy. I learned to make tamales in Oaxaca and cannolis in Sicily. I took pottery classes and started a new line of home goods and sold it to Williams Sonoma. Just kidding. I did proudly lose 10 pounds and managed to gain it all back just in time to start the new year though. Bravo 2018. I’m looking forward to new adventures, new faces, and more yo-yo dieting in 2019. @ Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

12/28/2018

“We only accept charming customers” is up there with “never trust a skinny baker” and “I eat my feelings and so should you!”

12/27/2018

Totally amazing gourmet shop in Siracusa at the end of the food market. Olives cheeses meats, caponata, capers, everything you could ever want to not stop eating!

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