Six Years (+ Vegetarian Red Beans and Rice)
[Sunday, San Francisco, March 2012.] Today: a glowering, gloomy sky with rain in the forecast. Last week was the rainiest it’s been here in months …
Sunday Dinners (+ A Spinach Soufflé)
[Limantour, March 2012.] March. Suddenly, we’re on the cusp of spring. This strange, dry, sunny winter has turned everything around and the mountains are hardly …
Looking for Inspiration (+ a Chard Gratin)
[San Francisco this morning, February 2012.] Today: the sky a sweet, deep blue, warm for February. I am eating an orange. Trying to write an …
Off East (+ Cabbage-Chard-White Bean Soup)
Tomorrow I go to Maine to visit Kurt and Emily, she of the biscotti pictured above and the delicious fresh-ginger ginger cookies sent for the …
Into the Woods
[Thanksgiving dinner, November 2011.] This year, Thanksgiving weekend involved a lot of time outdoors and that’s perhaps the thing I’m most grateful for in these …
Soon (But for Now, Carrot Soup)
[San Francisco, September 2011.] Currently, slowly consuming a piece of cake I baked for a coworker’s mumble mumble th birthday — chocolate cake filled with …
Ten
I wrote this post two years ago, and I’m re-posting today because whenever I sit down to write something about 9/11 I find I write …
Cooking with Emily
[At Green Gulch Farm, July 2011.] A weekend of good eating and, as sometimes happens, not too many photographs taken. My sister-in-law Emily is in …
Quinoa with Pesto and Chickpeas
[Near the lighthouse, June 2011.] Sunday was this really gorgeous day of sort of meandering about and doing all the things I like to do. …
Homemade Mac + Cheese
[This morning, June 2011.] Today, the urge for train journeys, and snow, and frozen lakes. June 10 and I am still in winter — wintered-over, …