This is a new year that feels a bit stale from the start because of the sour taste lingering from the one it follows. That is, for those still with the ability to taste. We are all struggling to find balance and peace and renewal. In what felt like a fitting mistake today, I lopped […]
Our sweet bulldog is now half-blind. In a Shakespearean twist, her eyeball had to come out last Tuesday. She is adjusting like a champ. We are resorting to pirate costumes to adjust ourselves, but she is in much less pain now without the tumor that had invaded the eye, and so we are grateful. She […]
Just in time for fall issues this lovely read, In Winter’s Kitchen, the latest book from Minnesota writer Beth Dooley, author of several Northern Heartland cookbooks. The chapter on “Wheat” spoke to me as it was in Minnesota that I had my own personal foodie revolution featuring a sourdough starter named Flo, and hence, this […]
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. […]
Every autumn I impulse-buy a couple of squashes. I can’t stand it, they make me giggle. Gourds are the most Muppety of all vegetables. They just delight me, and so I absently put them in the cart. Once home, what to do with several pounds of earthen tubers? Squash them, of course. Halloween is the […]