Chicken Broth: A Note
You know that terrible feeling of having forgotten something? A vague niggling that sends you checking for keys or glasses or even outside to make sure the headlights are off? That was me last night with the broth recipe. At 1a.m., my ever helpful brain woke me: You left the giblets…
Chicken Broth
One of rare disease’s more entertaining aspects is its unpredictability. There’s the gradual dawning that your body works differently than everyone else’s, and that differently doesn’t signify you’re the next Wayne Gretzky or Nadia Comaneci. Next comes the quest for diagnosis. Once you have a name for your special weirdness,…
Preserved Lemons
So, are we having fun yet? Indeed we are. Here at the IK we’ve spent the past two weeks and much of our savings flying about California. We were ill-assisted by an airline team whose experience with wheelchair users was minimal, an accessible van rental agency who left the…
Baked Ricotta
My husband plays a sport called power soccer. This is soccer for those in power wheelchairs: a metal object called a guard, resembling the grille on a Toyota Landrover, is screwed to the front the wheelchair. Players use the guard to hit a regulation power soccer ball either head-on or…
Jook
“You need to go to the ER,” John said. Last Thursday night my temperature soared from its normal 97 degrees to 100.7. “Let’s stay here.” I said through chattering teeth. John doesn’t drive anymore. Going to the ER would mean driving myself, an unthinkable effort. Swallowing aspirin, I wrapped myself…
The IK Basic Burger
Restaurant menus offering hamburgers with overly fancy toppings or exotic fillings make me extremely nervous. No, I don’t want artisanal French cheese, hand-foraged field mushrooms, or Iberian ham atop my burger. Tapenade doesn’t belong inside a burger, though I once followed a misguided recipe calling for just such a combination. …
Orzo Lunch for those who Labor
Spend the briefest amount of time amongst wheelchair users and listen as the conversation rapidly turns toward bathroom use. How, when, and where are all lively topics when you cannot walk into a restroom and use the facilities as architecturally intended. A close second to bathroom use is personal cleanliness…
Hot Pepper Sauce: A Ghost Recipe
All cooks save recipes. It can be a peculiar pastime. For every two dozen recipes stuffed into a folder or box or computerized whatnot, one might slide into regular rotation. And that recipe often ends up so altered over time–the onions becoming scallions, the tomato sauce morphing into paste, the…
Unbarbecued Pork Tenderloin
Originally this recipe was titled “Pork Tenderloin a la clueless Juive”–that is, pork tenderloin a la clueless Jew–but I worried about offending people, even if the clueless Jew in question is yours truly. When John and I took up housekeeping together, nay these many years ago, he humbly asked if…
A little Fall eye candy…
Short post today….fall, courtesy of flowers and fruits. Food, as in unbarbecued pork, to within the next couple days. Thank you for being here.