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…
beef stew
I worked at the market yesterday, and I think that thirty hours later I am just starting to thaw. It never quite got above 35 degrees, and while all the happy tourists lucked out with a sunny crisp day for looking at their precious leaves, that is just too damned cold to stand in one…
pho
Yeehaw. It’s that time again, when Alana makes a mess making something that she never dared to do before! Pho! Or more accurately, Pho? There’s not much pho to be had around here, but every time we go to Denver, there’s a whole lot of talk of the famous Vietnamese noodle soup. That said, I…
Stuffed Winter Squash with Warm Beet Salad
I’ve written about this one before, but sometimes a dinner bears repeating. Especially because I’m starting to get squash calls again. These calls are part of the fall over here, like apple cider, and pink eye epidemics. They start off just coming here and there, maybe one a day. But as we start to move…
why i love baking, or, daring bakers puff the pastry
Why do I love to bake? I love to bake because the process simultaneously works with absolute truth and mystery. I like that it is so hard, but that there is a path to making it work. And the path is set out. The alchemy has been described and written out for me, but it…
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