I am a big fan of recipes that involve a bit of loving neglect. I love cooking, but am an avid multitasker, or possibly (read: likely) I just get distracted easily. So recipes that involve intentional forgetfulness are my bread and butter. It also hurts my soul to toss food…
That guy I mostly hang out with, well it was his birthday this week. He and I differ slightly in how we like to celebrate life events. Greg thinks that a birthday is “just another day” while the Latina-girl in me thinks anything less than a weeklong celebration for any…
We had some torrential rain this past week at my home base in the Salty City. It was my cue that it is time to kiss summer goodbye. Though I tend to do so kicking and screaming… I love harvest veggies and sweaters and soup that come along with the…
Forbidden Rice Pudding sounds nice and naughty… in a delicously contraband kind of way. We all appreciate forbidden fruit, and I would stack this rice pudding made with coconut milk up against original sin. First things first – what exactly IS forbidden rice? It is a type of purple-black rice-an…
Once a week, you’ll be getting some random thoughts straight from my brain to the page. It might be about restaurants we’ve tried, events we crashed … er… got invited to, travel tips, books we are reading (or want to read) or our plans to run away to New Zealand.…
I dream of a future where I have time to thoughtfully compose my daily menu over a cup of jasmine tea. As I contemplate the best of the season with a little prayer to the kitchen gods, I imagine embarking on my daily pilgrimage to the various small markets to…
Fall is in the air, but it is the tail end of the summer stone fruit season. I do everything in my power to cling to summer and that means bottling up both my summer memories and summer plums. These beauties are at their peak right now and I had…
I have a recipe box – old, ugly, scratched and stuffed full. It would make an Instagrammer cringe with how non-photogenic it is, and it in no way reflects my deep inner philosophy of the soul of food. Or my sense of personal style. Or whatever. Oh, and it’s a…
foodist – (noun) 1. A person who is very interested in food (emphasis added) 2. A person who is interested in foodism I am really an accidental food type. Food has been a consistent background melody in my life. I have one of those close-knit families (the kind that is…