This hot, sweet baked pumpkin was part of the last meal I cooked for myself in the old apartment. At the farmers market, I’d found a large banana squash the color of orange sherbet, and it sat on the top of a bookshelf in my bedroom for over three weeks before I finally carved it […]
Three years ago today, I started up this blog with a recipe for ginger peach pandowdy baked in a cast-iron skillet. It was a year after I graduated college, I had a lot of free time on my hands after getting home from work, and I wanted to channel my creative energy into some things […]
Like usual, Mom was outside, dressed in her well-loved shorts and bleached baseball cap, dirt rimming her fingernails and staining her knees. She was in a fierce battle with the crabgrass and wild spring onions that threatened to choke her irises and rose of sharon. When she called out, I ran to the front of […]
When I first landed upon Nourished Kitchen‘s recipe for black-eyed pea cakes, I immediately thought of dark little moons on a plate. But that was just my own association – Jenny has crafted these little cakes to be rich in meaning and celebration. The black-eyed peas are tokens of luck; the collard greens resemble dollar bills; […]
A couple months back, Emily Hilliard of Nothing-in-the-House pie blog and baking co. and I started up a blog collaboration with me visiting her very pink kitchen and baking grapefruit and pepper tartlets. And now, Emily has returned the favor and has written up a lovely blog post featuring yours truly, plus my mama’s recipe […]
Nordic countries aren’t traditionally known for their cuisine. Blood pudding or fermented shark, anyone? This has changed over time, of course, as restaurants like Copenhagen’s Noma is consistently named best restaurant in the world, and one of its rivals for the top contender is in Sweden. But somewhere between the boiled sheep’s heads of the […]
You know it’s fall when you’re feet are always freezing. You’ve taken to shuffling around your apartment in your surrious smartwool socks in a vain attempt to stay warm. From your fourth-floor bedroom window, you watch squirrels building their nests in the oak trees. The air is cold, blessedly cold, making your nose run on your […]
This week is a big one. My bedroom is in the midst of a packing frenzy for Iceland – sweaters, colored pencils, scarves, notebooks, film canisters, and smart wool socks have barfed all over my floor. Should I upload the audiobook of Game of Thrones or Seating Arrangements to my iPhone? What about my unfinished knitting project? And how […]
July has been a month of bounty – an abundance of heat, heart, corn and cantaloupe, paintings finished and paintings begun, books yet unfinished (currently reading 7), journeys to the kitchen and journeys to the beach and journeys in staying still for awhile. This summer has been a peaceful respite from the busy-ness of the […]
This past week was one that trickled by too slowly, with nearly every moment sharp with anxiety. I’m in a lousy housing situation that turned sour very quickly, and am now stuck in a dragging, miserable hunt for a new home that is beautiful, affordable, and filled with wonderful people (and a decent kitchen, of […]
