Karl-Peter last weekend, disguised as Quest Love, enjoyed a little bout of Egg Roulette at the Jimmy Fallon-themed Game Night party of our favorite neighbor. Egg is a multi-purpose tool, says Easter. Say the Portuguese. I have to admit I thought this recipe was going to be intolerably gross, but my track record for misjudging […]
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Ezra Pound Cake for the Edible Book Festival
“Please, Ma’am, tell me about your Edible Book project.” “Well I chose Chocolat, after which I fashioned a chocolate ginger bread house decorated like a French chocolaterie.” “Beautiful. And yours?” “My book is The Color Purple by Alice Walker, and so I decorated a cake with all things purple! Radicchio, purple grapes, dark carrots, tinted cauliflower, and […]
Pumpkin Oat Pie Squares for Pi Day
Pi Day, Pie Day. I know, it’s the big one. 3.14.15.9 – how lucky to live through such a date. KP said we should do something special to celebrate, and I suggested math problems, and he said he would prefer to eat something special. If you are in the mood today to make some pie, […]
Thai-Glazed Corn Shrimp Dumplings
I have been tickling my dendrites with jazz, coating my tongue in dark chocolate, and then the word dumpling happened, and I felt Minnesota leak under the windowpanes like a draft. Dump-ling. It sounds like what it dares to do to me. But, oh. With Thai glaze—not so dumpy. I’m headed to a warm place, […]
Chicken-Andouille Gumbo and Bread Pudding
Well if I had pralines for breakfast, I suppose it’s a sign that I’m returning to good health (or rather, evidence that indeed I do share genetic material with the estimable lifelong confectioneer, Ruth Broomfield.) Between Whiplash and Birdman, jazz featured prominently this year at the Academy Awards, and something about jazz gets me in a […]
Cabin Fever Pumpkin Swirl Cake
Winter in Minnesota reminds me of the evil oogly stare of Kaa in Jungle Book. But instead of a boa constrictor’s body, it is a scarf and mad bomber hat and down jacket that strangles me. Snow flurries induce the dizzying trance that has me zombie-walking to and from my car, never outside, never free, […]
Asian Pork Meatballs for Year of the Sheep
I am mad at biology—this, my ruminative thought while stuck with the flu on the couch under three blankets, swaddled in my leopard fleece robe and topped with a rabbit pelt-lined hat. Nothing hurries a common virus, it comes and goes as it must. I can only flush it again and again with fluids; how […]
Tomato-Portobello Stacks with Wasabi and Cheater’s Bearnaise
It is going to take daily dance parties if I am going to survive this winter. Blood needs to flow; meanwhile, all liquid outside my body has stopped. Our driveway is puddled with glass, and every day I’m dancing against friction to keep myself upright. These veggies burgers are a foreshadowing of grilling days to […]
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 […]
Garlic Scapes Frittata and the Disney Marathon
“When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs Ev’ry morning to help me get large! And now that I’m grown I eat five dozen eggs So I’m roughly the size of a barge!” -Gaston, Beauty and the Beast There’s nothing like running 26.2 miles in yellow tulle. In the rain. Next to a […]