Let me not to the marriage of two minds admit impediment. Love’s not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. Oh No. Love is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken. It is the star to every wand’ring barque, whose course is unknown, but […]
Category: Pie and Tart
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pie and the Eve of Thirty
In Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevky’s young headstrong character has this to say: “Do you know I’ve been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn’t believe in life, if I lost faith in the woman I love, lost faith in the order of things, were convinced in fact that everything is a disorderly, damnable, and […]
Pecan Shortbread with Chocolate Drizzle
Fall colors during an Indian Summer—the chickens are in heaven, frolicking in autumn leaves and striking distinguished profiles for the paparazzi. To a bird, the bilge under the leaves must taste as good as this: Pecan Shortbread with Chocolate Drizzle Adapted from Food and Wine 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup pecan flour or 1/2 […]
Honeyed Fig Crostatas and the Post Call Ritual
Eventually I will detail how I made these delicious Honeyed Fig Crostatas, for Sourdough Surprises, my favorite online sourdough community, www.sourdoughsurprises.blogspot.com But first, I want to wrap my Medicine Sub-I in saran with a little discussion on the aftermath of call schedules. There is a wonderful thing in medicine called the “Post-call Ritual.” For some […]
Salted Caramel Pecan Tart for the Craving
“Imagine a Carthage sown with salt, and all the sowers gone, and the seeds lain however long in the earth, till there rose finally in vegetable profusion leaves and trees of rime and brine. What flowering would there be in such a garden? Light would force each salt calyx to open in prisms, and to […]
Possibly All My Cheese and Pancetta Pie
If one chooses to increase her atherosclerosis risk factors during the traditional Superbowl binge, let it not be with godawful Doritos and tired-old chip dips. Saturated fat, as a “sometimes food,” should be done right. For this year’s Game Day, I made a list of all of my favorite foods that contain shameful amounts of […]
Kale Quiche as Bowling Fuel
I am so done with cookies. Now that I’ve written that, and stared at it for a few seconds to reconcile what’s written with what holds true, I immediately disagree with myself. BUT. For the time being, I feel like taking a break from cookies—the holidays cookied me out. Whole grains and a palette of […]
Chocolate Angel Pie
“Oh, you’re the caramel Americano with whip girl,” the barista said to me with a wink as he wrote my request onto the red cup. “One of my co-workers has a crush on you.” My face turned the color of the cup, and then I must have floated out of Starbucks, clapping my feet in […]
Peanut Butter Pie
During my medical school Nutrition Block, I have eaten far fewer fruits and vegetables than I normally do and I think it is because I’m counting the sheer volume of Powerpoint slides on “healthy choices” toward my daily servings. After being reminded for several hours how important it is to minimize sugar and saturated fat, […]
Spinach and Onion Quiche
What the heck is quiche? My number one question last night after I made three of these bad boys to serve as one of our dinner entrées for the Team Red Thursday meeting we hosted at Fuchsia and Lime. If I had just said Egg Bake it would have translated better into Midwesternese. Hey, I […]