The Old and the New
[Vegan flourless peanut butter cookies, December 2011.] Oh, I mean to write about these cookies before Christmas. They were set to be offered up as …
The Last Friday of the Year
[This morning, December 2011.] December 30th. We are tiptoeing up to the edge of the year and peering over its edge into the unknown. I’m …
The Details
[Cran jam, December 2011.] Last night I was so tired from assembling and making — the industry of which took up most of the afternoon …
It’s That Time
This is the time of year when all I’m doing is making up lists — constantly, consciously writing lists. Example 1: For a holiday party …
Thanks-giving
[Along the Pacific coast, November 2011.] Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over …
Making Pumpkin Pie from a Pumpkin
So what happened was: I went to the store to get the fixings for a pumpkin pie — the evaporated milk, the canned puree — …
Vegetarian Thanksgiving
[Kehoe Beach, November 2011.] Right — it’s November. The light, when the sun is shining, looks a lot like that photo above. I’m crossing my …
Barmbrack for St. Pat’s
The one and only time I went to Ireland I ate (vegetarian) baked beans, cheese toasties, fried eggs, mash. We had glasses of gin and …
Happiest of Happy
But that was not the same snow,” I say. “Our snow was not only shaken from white wash buckets down the sky, it came shawling …