“How wonderful to be understood/ to just sit here while some kind person/ relieves you of the awful burden/ of having to explain yourself, of having/ to find other words to say what you meant…and you have only to sit here and be grateful/ for words so quiet so discerning they seem/ not words but […]
The smells of summer, like struggle in the earth, sit heavy as fog in the kitchen. Ripening tomatoes, squash growing softer by the hour, the pressure to feast. This morning I invented a new breakfast, savory and whole-hearted. Ideal fuel for Labor Day Weekend madness. Poached Eggs on Savory Gruyere and Scallion Pancakes By Me […]
International Waffle Day is March 25th and if you need some inspiration to whet your iron, look no further than 150 Waffle Maker Recipes by Haugen and MacKenzie. Waffle it up for breakfast, lunch, dinner, birthdays, March Madness appetizers. This particularly delicious seafood concoction was a delicious porch treat—with this on my tongue, it was […]
The house smells of cinnamon and maple. Breakfast may as well be a candle scent. Nothing smells more like home. This last month was Breakfast Night month, and Krusteaz inspired me to make breakfast for dinner time and time again. Waffles have always been a go-to meal for me since I have a sourdough starter […]
A delicious Good Friday morning. Squash blossoms yawning open with the sunrise. Hot coffee and fat buttermilk gouda pancakes with a side of crackling bacon. The nest thick three chickens deep; a solo clarinet issuing “Just a Closer Walk with Thee” from a radio hitched to the coop (I believe the ladies are urged along […]
Went to a bounce dance class with some girlfriends recently, in the name of exercise. In the mirror, if I’m being charitable to myself, I looked like a marionette in the hands of an unskilled, perhaps drunk, puppeteer. Even when it isn’t pretty, adrenaline and a good bath in your own endorphins is the best […]
All is right with the world (in my little New Orleanian Mardi Gras bubble; note also that in the la la land of residency I really don’t have much time to belabor the weight of daily news). We have been trotting out to some of the early season parades, last night was Cleopatra, and we […]
‘Cause I’ve got a golden weekend! I’ve got a golden chance to make my way. And with a golden weekend it’s a golden day…. A Saturday morning at home has the verve of toddlerhood possibility. Of course, such freedom and possibility must start with a homemade pancake. An homage to Festus and Pancake Pie. Followed […]
Easter brunch has its staples. KP and I are accustomed to heading out to North Carolina to celebrate the culmination of Holy Week with our dear friends the Warrens, but this year, we are on the Left Coast to bid my parents a happy fortieth anniversary. Palm Sunday in New Orleans was a first for […]
Of course I want to be healthy. We all do. But when you look at an earnest summer squash in the produce section, who thinks pancakes? Well, now you will. I give you, the perfect summer dinner. Guilt free. Crispy Summer Squash Pancakes Adapted from Food and Wine 2 medium yellow squash, grated on […]