Time to eat a couple of meals to put on a winter layer. The chickens have so many lessons to offer us. Over the last couple of weeks they have been packing it away to prepare for these frozen months. Yesterday, before it had fallen, you could see the snow looming up there. The sky was […]
Category: Dinner
Roasted Butternut Squash with Lentils
I am roasting everything in sight. This dish is surprisingly sweet, and without sugar, for those needing to detox post-Halloween. There is nothing more comforting than sizzling gourds in autumn. One of the more creepy sentences I’ve ever written. Roasted Butternut Squash with Lentils Adapted from Food and Wine and Penzeys Spices 1 1/2 […]
Roasted Root Vegetables with Tamari for the Mike Wizowski of Clinical Skills
Having nibbled my own lips into two swollen, confluent canker sores, while over-caffeinating to the extreme of bilateral pseudo-DVT, Diet Coke-claudication of my calves—both symptoms pathognomonic for my stress response to Boards season—I am now finished being standardly tested in medical school. This last exam was my favorite because it thrust me into a perfect […]
Shrimp and Sausage Stew for the Beast
Worst food photography ever on this stew, the word itself lending a sort of downturned mouth onomatopoeia effect, stew…ew. Rather than lead off with an unappetizing photograph of my tasty, hearty autumn gruel, I’ve chosen to provide a charming foreshadowing of Hallow’s Eve at our house, with my chunky little Beast (Beauty in her yellow […]
Shrimp, Spaghettini, and San Diego
Yum. In a mood for seafood when staring at the sea scape of San Diego! The sounds of seagulls and train bells along the bay are West Coast anthems I haven’t heard in ages. All the same, sun and sea breeze long lost friends found again. What a glorious Saturday in the Gaslamp District. I […]
Pumpkin Soup
When this thick soup boils it reminds me of the paint pots at Yellowstone National Park, all glug and bloop. You know, if I had this to do again, I would leave the carrots completely out of it. Carrots and pumpkins have only their color in common—I don’t think they are really complimentary mates in […]
Potato Soup
My mother recently acquired a plant from a hippie gardening cult in Portland, Oregon—these are my roots, people, proud of em—and she named it after me: “Rachie.” Why? I have no idea. Then she said it looked like a Lord of the Rings plant, cunning and mischievous “like it might organize all the other […]
Stir-Fried Kohlrabis and Greens with Ginger, Soy and Oyster Sauce
We avoid what we fear. That is why I have allowed two kohlrabis to lurk in my refrigerator for two weeks, snickering together like little green alien heads would if left to their own. And, because I stir fry in ginger and garlic what I would rather not taste, I did a little ditty today […]
Cauliflower Steaks with Salsa Verde and M&M Conditioning
M&Ms are the reason I learned to defecate properly. This isn’t an IBS biofeedback story, I’m referring to potty-training. My mother used M&Ms as incentive, and the operant conditioning worked. In fact, I even got M&Ms for leading my brother to the trough, so to speak. M&Ms by pooping proxy. Fast-forward from two to twenty-nine, […]
Bean or Bacon Burgers, Red Goddess Salad, and Poetry for Summer’s End
We all need a little poetry in our lives, but I happen to be a person who needs a regular, and more sizable dose than the average human. It is best to neither question nor manhandle one’s given metabolism; rather, feed it. In a book of poetry on the topic of food, I found a whole […]