New recipe from The Jungle Effect, with my own twists. 3 red small potatoes or yukon gold, sliced 1 small fillet of white fish (I just ask at the counter what is inexpensive & local) fresh sprigs of rosemary olive oil 3 cloves garlic (peeled, whole) salt, pepper 1/2 T butter 1 T milk Heat [...]
This is a recipe I copied down from my mom who had it in some Mediterranean diet book. I looked it up a few years ago and couldn’t find it. It totally rocks, btw. Based on the tagine kind of flavoring. I remember cooking this and eating it for lunch for a week. I’d look [...]
A quick recipe for a weekday- a frittata made from random things in your refrigerator.
Russian tour friend made this borshch*, and I compared it to my beloved Time/Life Russian book, authors Helen and George Papashvily, 1969, part of the Foods of the World series. Carrots, or no carrots? Pork, or no pork? Sounds like it’s a regional difference. Here’s everything the Time/Life book has to say about this soup. [...]
“Pepparrot oppa,” my host Östen explained, pointing to the delicious lemony, cream soup. He tried to explain- it grows in the ground, like a potato but not a turnip. Finally I got up and handed over the Swedish-English dictionary and they looked it up. Horseradish soup! I looked through my mom’s many, many recipe books [...]
Here is the Thursday split pea soup- I read in the Time/Life books that Swedes always have this soup on Thursdays, and so I was very excited to sit down at a museum cafe and eat one, on Thursday. It’s a “fish Friday” institution, that you don’t want to make meat on Thursday as you [...]
My host in Sweden, Ingrid, served me horseradish soup one of the last nights, and I loved the peppery creaminess of it, so I roughly recreated the recipe yesterday for my Dad. From Epicurious and altered. Ingrid said she bought it at the store and re-heated. 1. The hard part is finding fresh horseradish. Whole [...]
cute fast-paced video of burning man 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0PSSpPXjQY
wow, sorry. that sucks. @lowfivegames .. iphone stolen on a MUNI bus
good fun hanging out with #blazingcloud ladies last night- @smei @liahhansen @ultrasaurus @soychicka carmen (twitter?) @desi
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