Thoughtful Thanksgiving. Or, A Thanksgiving Food Hater Comes Clean
There is a pretentious element to the insistence on organic food. I know this. I also know that shit be getting messed up in our environments, both globally and personally.
View ArticleThe Best Mother F*&%$*% Pastry I Ever Had The Privilege of Making
I feel like I just found the Holy Grail, except it won't keep me young, it will keep me from becoming Bruce Banner's alter ego when my pastry cracks all over the rolling pin and I am trying to show off...
View ArticleThe Happiest Place On Earth. No, Not the One with The Mouse.
ABC Carpet & Home. No I don't actually buy anything there but it doesn't stop me wandering, Alice-like in its magnificent, glittering, shit-made-for-rich-people fathoms.
View ArticleChickpea Balls, Yogurt Cumin Sauce and Sizzling Minted Peas
Inspired by this gorgeous cookbook that I graciously gave my husband (ahem, to myself) last Christmas, it’s falafel!!! Actually, I don’t think it is falafel really, but it’s a chickpea patty which...
View ArticleThe World is Ending Tomorrow So I Will Eat All The Cookies
You may remember, during Superstorm Sandy, I broke out the Kitchen Aid mixer a few times to elevate the mood and the blood sugar of our refugees/guests. Me, myself, I? Not such a big sweet tooth. But...
View ArticlePizza Made From Scratch, Yo!
Many years ago now, I stood on a cliff top in Baja California (AKA Mexico) and said “Si” in a wedding ceremony in a language of which the only word I knew was “cerveza.” My bridegroom spoke the...
View ArticleCaramelized Leek + Ricotta Ravioli with Brown Butter, Sage and Pinenuts
In my prefect world Christmas is spent in pajamas with chocolate smeared across oneself and martinis are for breakfast.
View ArticleHourglass Figure
It’s January. Which is the month after the holidays. This guy ate way too much ham. He always eats way too much ham. How y’all doing with your resolutions?
View ArticleCalifornia Welcoming Committee
Though ’tis not enough to make up for my complete neglect of these tender pages, here are the strawberries who personally welcomed me to Southern California. Leaving grey, snowy, dreary, cold,...
View ArticleThis Ma Thing…
My commonwealth roots are showing. Hot tea. Homemade bread (thanks King Aurthur) with nutritional yeast and butter. It’s the small pleasures people.
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