many years ago we were in Florence, Italy, and a friend of ours took us to a Communist Pizza Party. it was outdoors and there were old communists square dancing and young communists eating pizza. on offer were three different pizzas: one with marinara and cheese, one with marinara, cheese and mushrooms, and one with [...]
this year there’s a debate that cooking has supplanted knitting as the “new yoga.” but most of this cooking stuff is really about High Chefery. we have Chefs with Designer Footwear, Chefs Undercover (writing “tales from the trade” novelettes, with titles such as “Under Hot Water,” “Hung High and Dry Like a Cold Cut,” “Kept [...]
my teeth are in really great shape (“only floss the ones you want to keep!”) but i do make a point to see my dentist at least three times a year. mostly it’s because my visits include drinking coffee out of his vacuum pot with his freshly roasted beans (kenyan, usually). there’s a whole rigmarole [...]
just a short list for today: –a bonanza of fava beans. god, there’s never enough. lucky for me it’s also green garlic season so sauteing the two together in butter makes everyone lick their plates so clean there’s no dishwashing here until tomato season! –indecision: –crazy assed yet beautifully designed Chinese coffee tins: yes, i [...]
fava beans rising up like middle fingers… and all sorts of other helpful creatures standing by… ever since we moved here our neighbor’s avocado tree has borne no fruit. sometimes i get the suspicion that he thinks it’s not a coincidence. i think (he’s over 80 years old) that he did get fruit these last [...]
today’s agenda is to cover everything with chocolate. we’ve got: candied tangerine peels (after eating the inside of a tangerine from Westfield Farms the immediate thought is what to do with the outside), candied ginger (ok, i bought those), bananas (which we’ll freeze and eat as if we’re on Catalina Island), coffee beans (no duh), [...]
yay! it’s spring, and while we wait for the bees to finish pollinating the fava beans (planted last December, part of the economic meltdown where we switched from computers to agriculture) we’re putting down our tomato seeds. we’ve got Costoluto Genovese, Yellow Pear, Japanese Black Trifele and one other. oh and some larger pots of [...]
bring your eyes slowly to the edge… very slowly, it’s a little greasy… blink twice… yup… someone ate yo freakin’ marrow.
because the convalescent pup needs bones to keep her happy for the 60 (now 45!!) days of crate rest, we ordered 40 pounds of meat + bones from the wonderful people at Slankers. yes we had to fulfill the minimum by adding people meat parts to the order. so drool over this: coffee/cumin dry-rubbed meaty [...]
