Hello from here. (Cold, cold, cold.) I’m going to try to finally wash my windows today, as the world has lost some of its usual sparkle. I’m mired down in January already, just when I’d really decided, last month, that I unapologetically love winter. But last month there were bonfires and birthdays and cocktails and…
it's all how you define success
This weekend, I’ll plant the garlic, and then I’m done. The garden and I are no good for each other. We come together with the best of intentions, the garden and I, always thinking it will be different, thinking we have finally changed each other. I hum to myself as I kneel in the straw….
coconut congee with chicken and greens
There are nights that fit together like puzzles. I’m standing at the stove–it’s 5:00 and there is a coming and going in the house right now which is decidedly unsettled, although also joyous in a sun-through-the-window kind of way. I’m making congee, the thick rice porridge that is thickening in so many kitchens in the…
red lentil soup with spicy creme fraiche
If my kitchen had a coat of arms, it would surely include the lentil. First, there was basic lentil soup, made as my mother and Mollie Katzen taught me. That’s with the greenish brown lentils, the cheapest in the bulk section. The lentils break down, and so the whole thing is thick and warm and…
apple celeriac soup
This is not the first time I have been inspired by a celeriac root. It wasn’t just the soup. It was the day. And although the day was filled with all sorts of other agenda items, this celeriac root was hanging out around my thoughts like a muse. If I am to be entirely honest,…
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