All I want is a yurt somewhere. Perched up high in the cold night air. With one enormous chair, oh! Wouldn’t it be loverly?
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Letting Things Fall
August 31, 2011 – 10:15 am
As we ease into fall, the nights are cooler, yet the days are sunny enough to keep a dewey shimmer on the skin. The cooking in my kitchen is reflective of what is available with the seasons. I can’t get enough of the fantastic offerings from our farmer’s markets as my burgeoning refrigerator can attest. [...]
Layered Summer Vegetable Soup
August 18, 2011 – 2:57 pm
The August vegetable explosion is on! Tomatoes are ripe and richly flavored, squash is thin-skinned and tender. All are available in peak abundance at local farmer’s markets. This “soup” of vegetables simply stewed in their own juices cooks, as if by magic, with a simple layering of the ingredients in a pot. I culled this [...]
Hot Buttered Ginger Peaches
August 9, 2011 – 11:04 am
Summer is fleeting and peaches are ripe for the picking and eating. Out of hand, over the sink with sweet juices running down my chin and arm, sliced and steeped in a quenching peachy lemonade, or pureed and churned into cold ice cream. These are a few of the ways I’ve been indulging in the [...]
A funny thing happened on the way to the allergist
August 5, 2011 – 10:12 pm
A honeybee sting nearly killed me when I was eight. It happened as I was running barefoot across a clover-scattered lawn to a neighbor’s house for a swim. I don’t recall much else – apparently I soon went into anaphylactic shock, passed out in the pool and woke up the next day at the [...]
Fried chicken, as summer, comes but once a year
August 3, 2011 – 3:35 pm
At least that’s how it works in my house. It’s indulgent and special, a delectable treat. So give it your all, make it celebratory, in fact. Which means…
Yes, Soup For (Just) You, When You “Serve Yourself”
April 12, 2011 – 11:40 am
Sweet Potato Soup with Chickpeas, Chorizo and Kale (here I used the vegan chorizo by Field Roast), from, Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One, Joe Yonan If I were permitted only one word to describe Washington Post Food Editor Joe Yonan’s first book, Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One, what [...]
Sprouted Grain and Coconut Flour Pancakes
March 6, 2011 – 12:46 pm
My last media project was a monumental two month-long recipe test/development for TLC’s Kitchen Boss series. What exactly did that mean? It meant that on extremely short notice, I said yes to a new and wonderful gig, packed up my belongings in New York and scurried back to Cleveland. It also meant taking a little [...]
Escape from Siberia Tour ’11, Part 1: Tacos al Pastor
March 1, 2011 – 6:06 pm
With my toes glazed fittingly in OPI’s “My Chihuahua Bites” and ace-traveling companion, Karen, in tow, I flew off to the western coast of Mexico to escape the winter Siberia of Cleveland. Disloyalty, shmoyalty. Our unrelenting bitter, gray sludge of winter could smack the smile right off the perkiest pom pom princess, and any opportunity [...]
