Bookseller, baker, ricotta-cheese maker. I'm a reader, a wannabe writer, have a mothballed J.D., and am little bit crazy. These are the days of my lives.
Posted in Deep Thoughts, bipolar, food, links, medicine, memory, mom, writing on Sep 6th, 2010
She doesn’t get why the girl who’s been sharing the seat gives her a glare when she gets off the bus– at least not until the girl– pretty in a red and purple vintage style wrap dress, zaftig though more so than Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks– says to the friend who’d been standing next to […]
There’s a May 24 column from Pete Wells in the Dining section of the NYT about not having access to his cookbooks since they’re boxed up for a move. He relates a lostness he feels, not having access to those pages, yet talks about how, not being tethered to the recipes, he’s in some ways […]
Posted in Better Half, books, flickr, food, links on May 27th, 2010
We finally had a long-ish weekend away. We spent the weekend in Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod. There was walking– and eating greasy Portuguese sandwiches for breakfast including a custardy-yum pasteis de nata and fabulous fish and chips for dinner one night and another HOMGYUM breakfast oh, there was laughing and […]
Posted in Pantry cooking, baking, books, cooking, flickr, food, links, low carb, recipes on May 14th, 2010
Deb at Smitten Kitchen had this recipe for Shakshuka, an Israeli Spicy Tomato Stew with Poached Eggs that I really wanted to try. See, it looked really easy, a one pot dish that you built by layering flavors, and when the stew was basically done, you popped in a few eggs and poached them in […]
Posted in YouTube, flickr, food, just plain silly, links, photos, recipes, wine on May 6th, 2010
Beyonce, girlfriend, forget rings. You and I have got to talk about fried eggs. Especially this one. Because there’s this woman Deb, she runs an excellent website, and she has a recipe I think you will like– because see that glossy, fried golden egg on top of it all? This is a recipe all the […]
Posted in cooking, flickr, food, links, photos, recipes on Apr 22nd, 2010
You will never want noodles again. Fine Cooking’s Chicken Soup with Lime and Hominy. Yum doesn’t even begin to describe it.
I made the following changes. (What? Me, leave a recipe all on its own?) I let the chicken dry-season with the salt, pepper, and oregano called for in the recipe while I sauteed the onion, […]
Posted in cooking, flickr, food, links, photos, recipes on Apr 19th, 2010
The new drugs I’m on kill my appetite.
Kill. I have no sense of fullness until– boom– I’m suddenly nauseous– and if I eat something too sweet, it gets my gag on something fierce.
There’s a post I’ve been working on– badly– forever, it seems, about food and control and issues of fatness and thinness and all […]
Posted in baking, bipolar, cooking, flickr, food, links, photos, recipes on Apr 9th, 2010
So– say you’ve been sick for a while– a never-ending cold that dragged on for a month, your cyclical spring depression and a brief, scary manic burst of irrational rage, various family things going on, etc., and you’ve also got to work and get up every day and at least pretend to the outside world […]
Posted in cooking, flickr, food, links, photos, recipes on Jan 4th, 2010
Holy crap, y’all. I cooked twice this week and not only lived to tell the tale, I also took pictures. After all of the working I’ve been doing, this hit the spot.
See? See? It’s true! The cook thing in my screen name isn’t all a vile lie. Pinky-swear.
This is roughly– very– based on this recipe from […]
Posted in adventures in retail, apocalypse, food, going to hell, links on Dec 24th, 2009
Yep. Workin’ Christmas Eve.
But that’s okay. You know why?
I baked. Cookies. Lots of ‘em. I made my traditional Fine Cooking butter cookies with raspberry jam filling and frosting. And chocolatey cookies sprinkled with salt from Barbara Lynch’s cookbook Stir. (Run, don’t walk, make these cookies.) And the best toffee you will ever eat, ever.
That’s right– recipe links. […]