We are in the shoulder season of spring. It is not quite warm enough to languidly lay in the sun eating raw salads and taking delicate sips of mint julep, nor does it seem quite right to be hunkering down to a marathon of baked macaroni and cheese and beef brisket, slathering on an extra layer of …
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retreat-worthy: beet and black rice salad.
The key to successfully cooking for other people while they are on a meditation retreat is to think thoughts of love and compassion, so as to channel those same qualities into the food you make, hence providing nourishment that dares to delve into a world beyond physical. With this intention in mind, I like to …
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i like you. here’s some food.
Over the weekend I baked a large carrot cake for my friend’s birthday. It was served at a party with lots of our friends, and our friends are nice people, so they congratulated me on how delicious and beautiful the cake was. My outward response was, “Thanks!” but inside I thought, “Well I guess they …
chocolate sourdough.
Homemade chocolate sourdough, studded with chocolate chips, smeared with butter. Breakfast of champions.
lentil loaf.
The Internet is rife with hyperbole, but the other day I finally, finally, made a lentil loaf. Seriously. I have a page ripped out from a magazine with a recipe for a Curried-Lentil Quinoa Loaf stuck in my food journal (because I’m cool like that), and the footer on the page says, “October 2010.” Four years. …
it’s all sourdough love, baby.
Bread was among one of the first things I ever baked, and it was a strange, mysterious and incredibly rewarding experience. Watching the yeast dissolve and grow foamy in sugary water, then the springy aliveness of the dough – it was all so new and exciting. Enamoured with my new hobby, I even wrote a …
wontons: wrapped, unwrapped.
When I was growing up, we would often eat out, Chinese style, for Sunday lunches. My parents would take my groggy brother and I to loud, gritty restaurants (loud/gritty = better food, naturally), and slouching in cracked vinyl chairs we would order giant bowls of steaming noodles and dumplings. Everything set before us would swim …