I’m packing.I have that strange feeling that I get when I’m about to go on a trip. Like everything is different already, exciting and ungrounded at the same time. I’m going to San Francisco.First, to be honest, I’m going south of San Francisco, to Carmel, so that I can be there to watch my friends…
wild rice and leek soup
Lately, dinnertime has been a little, well I don’t know- let’s see how I could frame it. It’s all in the way you look at at, right? Lately, dinner time has been a little…loud…..tear-filled……almost humorous (and I say almost!) in the regularity of the crying……challenging……..did I say loud? I haven’t quite figured it out, except…
leeks vinaigrette
Well NaBloWriMo, I have honored you. I have rambled, I have pulled recipes out of the air, and I have managed to write every day with only one all photo post. What a party. It’s been a wild time. Oh November. And tomorrow, it’s December. Month of my birthday, my two wedding anniversaries (one shotgun…
Scary Fall Stew
Some food can be a little scary. We tend to shy away from food that we don’t understand. I totally understand this urge. I mean, we’re talking about things that we are putting in our bodies here. There’s a lot at stake. Best to stay with the familiar. Or not. Because when we eat something…
fried green tomatoes with leeks and goat cheese
Sometimes when I’m really lucky, there is an excess of something left from the market, and when I’m even luckier, it’s a combination of ingredients that helps me to think of exciting things. Yesterday, buried under the perfect red tomatoes Elizabeth had brought from the greenhouse, there were a few green, I mean brilliant pea…
Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 