Chickpea Chorizo Soup

November 24, 2015

This soup reflects continuing adventures in one-handed cookery while I struggle with Right Lateral Epicondylitis, whose onset last week was as abrupt as it was painful. I can’t pretend it’s been a good time, but people are stressed enough without my bitching. Let’s talk about Nigella Lawson for a minute…

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Asian Noodle Soup

November 20, 2015

This will be brief, as I am experiencing an acute episode of Right Lateral Epicondylitis, or tennis elbow. After visiting a shockingly insensitive physician Thursday, I departed with a handful of steroids and useless instructions to “do nothing”. As doing nothing is not possible, the man insisted “do something about…

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Sparkling Satsuma Aperitif

November 17, 2015

As a food blogger, I sometimes feel it incumbent on me to paint an autumnally mellow picture of holiday cheer. Scents of apple and cinnamon wafting from the oven, mulled cider bubbling atop the hob, an artisanal bird plumping in its brine. This isn’t that post. Yesterday my right elbow…

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(No Words) Pumpkin Scones

November 15, 2015

I spent the afternoon of Friday, November 13th nattering on about Pumpkin Scones. By 3:30 I’d polished a snappy lead-in.The recipe was set to go. There were lots of pretty photos. For once, I was ahead of schedule. Hoping to resolve my lingering confusion over linking, I opened a new window and typed…

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Butternut Squash Gratin

November 12, 2015

Butternut Squash Gratin is a recipe I tend to forget about for months at a time. Then I’ll remember it, cook it, and wonder how I could’ve forgotten something so wonderful. This recipe comes from the first edition of Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone.  While the title is truly accurate–one…

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Almond Cake

November 9, 2015

  The holidays are undeniably hurtling toward us. Lest I sound a complete grouch, it is not the holidays themselves I loathe. What infuriates is the pressure to attain impossible heights of domestic perfection, courtesy of catalogs, magazines, and blogs. All push perfect parties, exquisite gifts, and a flawless home….

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Bacon

November 5, 2015

If one considers a bagel with lox and cream cheese breakfast nirvana, it’s hard to understand the fuss over bacon.The current trend of pairing bacon with foods commonly considered dessert, like ice cream or chocolate bars, doesn’t help matters. In fact, some of us find it nauseating. When one considers…

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Chicken Broth: A Note

November 4, 2015

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…

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Chicken Broth

November 3, 2015

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,…

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WordPress bloggers have the instantaneous ability to check reader stats just by logging in.The first page we see on the “back end”–the dashboard–is a graph of blue bars whose relative heights indicate how many people hang around on a given day. So far I’ve managed to avoid constant checking, a behavior…

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