How to radish, I mean ravish, your taste buds. Some vegetables, I’ve noticed, have yet to become trendy and cool. The radish might be the Fred Mertz of vegetables. I would imagine if a radish wore pants, they might be pulled up past his greens; a dork of a veggie. But cheap! The bunches for […]
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Vegan Enchiladas
This is the story of a butternut squash who thought he was a pear. He grew up to be a vegan enchilada. I see a Pixar film somewhere in here. This is also the story of a lady who used to eat only Cheerios and hamburgers and made sour faces at dinner tables. She grew […]
L’Otto di Merano and Innocence
when god decided to invent everything he took one breath bigger than a circustent and everything began when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because – e. e. cummings Last night, I watched the 1979 film Being There alongside our Calvary film club, […]
Almost Dead Vegetable Soup
This soup is an opportunity to actually use all of the vegetables you have purchased because you believe deep down that you are a healthy person with pure intentions, but which you neglected for weeks to cook. Or perhaps you are going on a roadtrip and need to gut the fridge. I regret that I […]
Country Cowboy Coffee Cake and Strawberry Farms
We went South for the holiday weekend—to Iowa. Our retreat to Strawberry Farms was decidedly not a luxury Valentine’s getaway, it was, rather, like going to visit frumpy parents we don’t have (because our parents are not frumpy). Strawberry Farms had country charm—tap water that smelled of rotten eggs, a limping elderly golden retriever, chipped […]
Chocolate Meringue Brownie Cookies
I’ve been seeing these chocolate meringue-like cookies at Starbucks for weeks and telling myself No. But then came time to study for my OBGYN shelf, and as always, such effort seems to merit proper reward. Turns out, totally not worth paying the 2 dollars per cookie at Starbucks when they are so simple to make […]
Ginger Apple Muffins
The final installment of my OBGYN muffin series: the consumption of which is the perfect mirror of birth. These will fit near entirely into your completely dilated mouth, occiput anterior, transverse, or occiput posterior. Easily in with one push. Belly after eating a full pan I’d say would be about a 20wks gestational age bump. […]
Pumpkin Streusel Muffins
Izzy sustained a tongue injury today—she froze it to the chainlink fence in the backyard while making her morning rabbit-hunting rounds. I’m going on a crusade to end the winter. Minnesota ovens unite! This is the second batch in my muffin streak. While Izzy’s tongue froze, mine melted. Pumpkin Streusel Muffins Recipe from Kathy Ness […]
Curried Kabocha Squash Soup
Currently on a season of night shifts, so dinner is my new breakfast. Hearty winter soup seems to fit that awkward role well. I don’t know how I lived before my Vitamix. For my birthday this year, Mom and Dad Ellis gifted the majestic machine that I do caress and canoodle like a new lover. […]
North Woods Muffins
Something about working in OBGYN has me in the mood for muffins. I’m going to do a series here of my favorite muffins as I finish up my last week on the clerkship. I made these North Woods Muffins because I wanted to feel greater solidarity with the hearty folk of the Boundary Waters, even […]