Because this next week in obstetrics clinic I will spend ample time with things germinating, gestating, gesticulating, what have you, I decided to spend the weekend sprouting mung beans for the first time, see what the health food craze with germination is all about. Rumoredly, an adverb lazy people or tabloid journalists use, people who […]
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Pane Nero and Contented Melancholy
Having just seen the brilliant film Inside Llewyn Davis, I, as yet another unknown artist who also knows what it is to be told (again and again), “this won’t sell,” feel more contently misunderstood. Llewyn Davis, as a character, is good company to the starving majority of artists out there wandering the planet. Further, the […]
Pane Bigio and a Helmet for the New Year
For our soul is raised out of nature through the truly sublime, sways with high spirits, and is filled with proud joy, as if itself had created what it hears, or I might add to Dr. WC Williams, what it gets from Mom for Christmas, like a new shiny moped helmet. Though I can’t ride […]
Hungarian Sausage and Ale Stew
These are unfortunate times in the Midwest. My hair froze today as I was too impatient to wait for it to dry before heading to the car. KP contends that his nose hairs froze. According to my mother, “Frostbite is not a fashion statement.” Because of temperatures below twenty below, the state of Minnesota is […]
Salmon Potato Cakes with Dill Sauce
Before the coming Season of Birth commences on Monday (aka, my OB rotation), I made salmon cakes for a fancy kiss-KP-and-freetime-goodbye breakfast. Plus, the dish seemed a thematic bridge between the recent holidays spent in the Pacific Northwest, a hotbed of superior salmon cuisine, and the study of brave female spawning which I shall presently […]
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 […]
New Years Resolution Oatmeal Wheat
Making a loaf of bread a day in 2013, okay, almost every day, was the best exposure therapy for my kitchen phobia. What began as desensitization to recipe-reading and basic ingredient identification has blossomed into near-foodie-ism. I now crave new culinary challenge. I now miss the kitchen when I’ve been out of it for several […]
Black-Eyed Peas and Kale
I recently read somewhere that eating black-eyed peas and greens on New Years is good luck. The greens represent dollar bills and the black-eyed peas represent coins that swell when cooked—both signs of prosperity. Beyond totems, these ingredients are cheap and good for you—easy on the wallet and on the metabolism after the season of […]
Pane Siciliano
I love that I don’t know what day of the week it is. The holidays always do me like this. Blissfully disoriented and marvelously rested–reconnected to the core people in my life, mildly thawed. Sometime before we left on this trip, I made a loaf to gift to the person who made the one thousandth […]
Sourdough and Spice Popovers
Popovers are the hollowest of muffins. The perfect bread-form soup spoons, or whipped cream receptacles. They look like a herd of mollusks perched on the cooling rack. I’ve made these before, to the smooth tones of Teddy Pendergrass crooning on about hot oils (key ingredient, here)—but never with sourdough starter, which is this month’s Sourdough […]