On our anniversary in March, Dana and I went across the bridge to a little downtown shopping district and found a mom-and-pop bookstore. The only thing I bought that afternoon was a book called Small Batch Baking by Debby Maugans Nakos. She gives instructions on how to assemble your own small baking containters out of [...]
I threw this together last night and it was pretty dang yummy, to my surprise!
Ingredients:
2 T Cooking Oil (I used EVOO)
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 cup chopped bell peppers (any color)
1/4 cup chopped green onions
2 1/2 cups cut carrots
4 small cut potatoes
1 large can 100% Pure Pumpkin
2-15.5 oz cans Garbanzo Beans (Chickpeas)
Handful of pine nuts, pan [...]
My mother gave me a recipe book including all of my family’s favorite dishes as a gift for my graduation from college (last week!). Tonight I made “Spanish Bean Soup” (alternately, Garbanzo/Chickpea Soup) in less than an hour. As I understand it, the soup originated in Tampa at Columbia Restaurant which features Spanish cuisine in [...]
Let’s talk about HWP. You craigslist junkies will likely know what this means, but for those who haven’t had the pleasure, I’ll expand the acronym. HWP = Height/Weight Proportionate. In other words, it’s a socially acceptable way to say “No Fatties.”
Whenever I mention I am going to make curry bake on twitter I always have people asking me about what’s in it and how to make it, especially after I made it for Kyle and he raved about it on his blog (it may be the cure to hangovers according to him).
The sauce is rich, [...]
Last week… no, make that for the past two months… I’ve been on a cleaning, de-cluttering, organizing rampage. You wouldn’t know it from the looks of my house, but I work slow, okay. Just because I work slow doesn’t mean I’m not getting anything done! I went through my panties for the first time in over a year to take out the ones that are no good. So, here are some rules for thinning the crops!
Knitting is not just for femmes and girls! Anyone can be a knitter, all you have to be is willing to try, humble enough to be taught, and not worried about making mistakes. Get your needles ready, and let’s go change the world, one scarf at a time!
Step One: Meet a Knitter: This may be [...]
Sometimes we need to nurture, comfort and care for ourselves if we hope to serve the world to our fullest. A lot of femmes I meet seem to fogret this fact- we are the lover, parents, warriors and poets upon whom Atlas’ load is balanced. Without us the world would crumble and fall, without us we have this feeling the turning would stop and gravity would let everything we care about fly away into the ether.
One of my comfort foods is what I have deemed Comfort Garlic Toast. I have made variatons of it since I was a child. Powdered garlic, shredded cheddar and cheap bread were all it took for my mother to make me smile on a day someone had been mean to me or when I’d not aced a test. But I’ve grown up and the idea of a pool of cheddar grease leaves me wanting. This is my version of this treat and sometimes side dish to italian, french, or american cuisine… with a bit of grown up and a lot of childhood memory.
I love red lipstick. Red lipstick makes a statement. It is not unlike a killer pair of stilettos in that it perfectly highlights hyperfeminity and sexuality. I once heard that people who wear red lipstick smile more. And, while I don’t know if that is true or not, I do know that wearing red lipstick [...]
Thus I believe in the art of edible alchemy. We have the power to transform base ingredients to a higher purpose, and in my recipes I prefer to thus share more than the ingredients that went in. This first recipe in the Edible Alchemy series thus came to me when given an opportunity to sustain the lives, friendships and joys of friends and more of mine in Maine.