A few years ago during a road trip, a mouse got into our trunk and made a home for a few nights. He slept in the instant oats, nibbled on the stump of a muffin, picked open a bag of corn chips but didn’t eat the chips themselves – and most interestingly, ate a whole …
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retreat-worthy: chickpea potato salad
The winter is a time for heartier fare, but I also like to make these sorts of cooked salads – they are satisfying and nourishing, but digest easily. This is a good example of something that I like to make – it’s also what I served to the students at a silent meditation a few weeks ago. …
a stack of crepes.
In another life, I spent a summer waitressing at a crepe restaurant in cottage country. This was a year or so after a crepe restaurant would open up on a very busy intersection in the city I grew up in, and a few years before I would move to a city where yet another crepe …
bruschetta, with garden tomatoes.
Enjoying the juicy red gifts from our friends’ gardens.
No talking (see photo)
I feel like I have been posting too many photos, and not enough words. But I don’t feel like talking much. If I do, all I feel like saying is, “Look at the food, the food!” Doesn’t it look good, doesn’t it make you want to go make something good and then share it with …
“Everything was amazing.”
Said the Muffin Man, when I asked him what his favorite dish was from the night’s dinner. Well! We had a couple of friends over for dinner on a Saturday night, and I had greatly looked forward to an evening filled with good company and of course, good food. As you may or may not …
A cookie, times three
My lovely friend S gave me homemade cookie mix for Christmas. It’s a great gift, because it’s an excuse to bake and then I get a large Mason jar to store dried lentils in afterwards. It was originally a recipe for “classic sugar cookies” but since I have a belligerent streak, and it was going …
the M word.
Sometimes I like to go to McDonald’s and challenge my ideas about purity.
Oh for palate’s sake
It’ll be Christmas soon, and that means one thing is certain: potlucks. I know we haven’t quite leapfrogged over Halloween yet, but I already see Christmas decorations for sale in the shops, so there. I’ve always wondered why no one brings a giant bowl of plain white rice to a potluck. I suppose it’s because …
Cream of mushaboom
All that talk about Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom the other day gave me a hankering for my own version of creamy mushroom goodness. I have a copy of the 1960 edition of Elizabeth David’s French Provincial Cooking, which is said to have changed how the British cooked, just like how Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of …