Last night I took an herbal cocktail/mocktail class with my friend Brittany from Eudemonia Herbs. The emphasis on seasonal libations that harness the bursting herbal energy of spring include… Read More
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A blog about life, love, death, and eating well. Featuring musings on everything from my orange-stealing grandmother to the ways in which we love the people around us, each post ends with a recipe that is made to be gluten-free but easily modified for gluten-lovers by swapping out the flour.
As you may just be visiting for the recipe and I have not mastered the “Jump to Recipe” button, I won’t go into a long screed about wintering. If you are interested in what… Read More
We’ve been lied to, friends. It’s hard to imagine, but for years we’ve been buying ultra expensive almond butter as a nice alternative to your standard peanut, paying at le… Read More
Ho-ho-ho, bitches. The holidays are in full swing, and you couldn’t get off this train if you wanted to. Might as well lean in, call up a friend, and go hang out. Bring this as a snack… Read More
Full disclosure: I am not a huge fan of regular hummus; it is somehow rather pushy, and I get sick of it after a few bites. But when my friend served up this incredible dip (and let me take… Read More
Yes, this is a blog with recipes, but it was also the place where I wrote stories about life until everybody decided that they just wanted a recipe and not a diatribe about Nona’s kitc… Read More
I hate making gluten-free crust, but a galette is a little different. It’s meant to look rustic, and a patch here or there won’t affect anything. Add a no-stress crust with a lus… Read More
Phew. That’s a mouthful, that title, but isn’t it just the way? Sometimes you’re so full up of things there’s no way to be brief. These were created for my a good fri… Read More
I am no big fan of pumpkin. Mostly it tastes like the spices that flavor it, IMVHO — it doesn’t have a specific taste, really, especially if it comes out of the can (and is likel… Read More
Technically, I am not supposed to have a blog post title that long. It should be short and sweet, intriguing. But if you are not intrigued by the title above, you’re a dead person in a… Read More
I haven’t posted here since the beginning of the summer, and if you haven’t read that post you need to go there because it’s the most delicious salad that translates into f… Read More
It seems everybody and their fucking brother has a salad recipe for the summertime, but I’m just going to come out and say it: this one is better. How’s that, you say? 1. I… Read More
I am going to share a top secret recipe today that is fail-proof, delicious, cheap, and vegan (if you skip some of the garnishes). It’s because I LOVE YOU, and I want you to have good… Read More
What do you do when the sun is out, but it’s frigid, with temperatures dropping and snow on the way? And you just need a little tart sweetness in your life? You make passionfruit and l… Read More
Make your own cough drops with custom herbal tinctures for fast relief of symptoms Read More
You wake up to a wintery landscape, snow blowing in delicate flakes, adding to the two inches that has already fallen on the railings of your balcony and weighed down your plant’s new… Read More
So The Child is coming home for the holidays, and she has requested a few things for food. Salad (shocking), spice cake (not as shocking), and That Beef Stew Thing. “That Beef Stew Thi… Read More
Verdict: the Aukey PowerTitan 300 portable power station is worth the money (and I have a coupon for you!) Read More
All I want to do is get off of WordPress and onto some other easy-to-use site. And yet here I am, languishing on a platform I hate for the sake of occasionally posting here. It’s a pla… Read More
At the exact moment this blog is published, 4:26 pm on March 14th, I will turn 50. As you read this, if you come across it on that day, I will be on the sand in Assateague, listening to the… Read More
Twenty-two years ago today I met my husband, and eight years ago on Tuesday, February 16, he died in a single-car accident about 1/4 mile from our home. We had a rom-com-worthy meet cute. I… Read More
I don’t have many encouraging words right now. I am in quarantine, unexpectedly, and the 8th anniversary of Dane’s death is approaching. The winds are high, and my anxiety is lev… Read More
Every year, and KWeeks makes a little fun of me for this, I record all of the books I read. I do this for several reasons, not the least of which being that I have the short-term memory of a… Read More
The irony is not lost on me that this is the year that I decided to emulate Austin Kleon’s annual “100 Things to Love about _____.” First, comes COVID, a righteous clusterf… Read More
A week ago today, the nation suffered through the actual day of election after weeks of mail-in ballots and early voting and pontificating and bullshit leading up to it.. Four days later, pr… Read More
It’s Election Day, 2020, and things couldn’t be more uncertain. The only thing that is crystal clear is that this day is going to last longer than 24 hours – Maryland alone… Read More
Pancakes and muffins are for Saturdays, but Sunday means waffles. Crispy on the outside, soft and steamy on the inside. I eat the first one off the iron with my hands before the lid is even… Read More
The first year we moved into the house on 35th street, I was completely unprepared for Halloween. Our neighborhood gets between 500 and 700 trick-or-treaters annually, children who come in f… Read More
Look, I’m not gonna say that this is the best thing you’ll put in your mouth all week. I don’t know how you live your life. But if you want a strong contender for that titl… Read More
Collaboration is a funny thing. Everyone claims to want to do it, but in reality, the bare fact of working with another person to create something together is infinitely challenging. This ap… Read More
In the alley behind KWeeks’s house there are three Poncirus trifoliata trees. Known more commonly as bitter orange, hardy orange, or sticky orange, it grows well even in cold climates… Read More
There is something incredibly comforting about a warm bowl of food. Since it seems we are living in season 4 of The Handmaid’s Tale, we need comfort and care now more than ever. Enter… Read More
Friends, if you are even a semi-regular reader of this blog, you know that the above headline for this recipe is an anomaly here. I am a HUGE FAN of sugar. I like it in all of its forms. I l… Read More
So this was supposed to post on Wednesday, except I posted Monday’s blog on Tuesday. Monday was Yom Kippur and KWeeks was home from school. These days, the only way I have been able to… Read More
Edited to add: When I wrote this, Breonna Taylor’s murderers were let off the hook. More protestors were arrested than murderers of Breonna Taylor. Two cops in Louisville were shot the… Read More
So it’s maybe a little strange to start a food blog writing about death, but isn’t it all related in the end? My beautiful friend Mark Garner died a year ago on October 23rd, 201… Read More
Edited: this was written prior to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We have apparently now entered the meaty side of things. Yes, I am aware that I said we would get in… Read More
One of my favorite artists, Marina Abramovic, said this in the documentary Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World: “It’s important as an artist to know how to stop and when to die… Read More
2020 was the year we all became experts on how far a sneeze can travel in a grocery store. It was also the year I learned that you cannot erase all of your “recents” documents wi… Read More
I don’t know about where you live, but here in Maryland we have just gotten our first glimpse of fall. This past week overnight temps hovered in the mid-60s, and daytime highs were jus… Read More
FRIENDS. The Great British Bake-Off (The Great British Baking Show in the U.S.) has finished filming their next season, and GOOD LORD do we ever need some GBBO camaraderie. The Great British… Read More
I have been in the past, and still am, if I am being honest (which I always try to be), a cynical person to varying degrees. I have referred to myself as an optimistic pessimist – thin… Read More
When I lived in the south I had a friend who was a little bit crazy. Actually, really, very crazy. But she was my friend and she was fun until she wasn’t, and she hated ambrosia salad… Read More
One of the most poignant and bittersweet memories in my childhood is of steaming vats of water in an already-steamy, un-airconditioned rustic kitchen, used first to slip tomatoes of their pa… Read More
So I am reading The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, a book from 2017 only reminds me of how elemental it is to retreat to a natural space when it&rsquo… Read More
So this is it for me. I am officially going on a break with this blog, at least until the fall, I think, or until I redesign the blog and move it to another host, or something becomes so com… Read More
I seem to have temporarily lost my voice. Not my actual one – the one that I use in my work. A combination of fear, doubt, grief, the weight of the world. I feel silenced and flummoxed… Read More
I am finding all sorts of beautiful and heartbreaking and hopeful voices in my travels these days. I am trying to moderate my intake of the interwebs, so I am simply posting without broadcas… Read More
So here we are, already in June, with each month either accelerated beyond comprehension or dragging along. I can’t decide which one May was. Fast, maybe? At any rate, it is increasing… Read More
When will the state-sanctioned killing of black people in this country stop? What is it in the DNA of white people born in the U.S. that allows them to cast their eye away from the senseless… Read More
Mapping Police Violence. Goddamnit. I can’t post this week’s links without talking about George Floyd and Breanna Taylor. The death of George Floyd is now under investigation by… Read More
As we all navigate what might turn out to be a brand-new world, it helps to go to the water, our place of origin, and to just listen to it meet the shore. I don’t like to “interp… Read More
We’re gonna go ahead and start this party with a little bit of shirtless Prince at his live birthday show in Detroit in 1986. If I am honest, as I always try to be, I will say that I w… Read More
So you may have noticed very little (any?) food content here on this blog lately, a so-called food blog that has been o’er taken by poems and links from other people and merely passabl… Read More
Friends, this poem is incredible and timely. It almost made me cry, the last stanza, especially as we are in such an extraordinary time of avoiding human contact. I did not know Aracelis Gir… Read More
This past week has proven quite fraught, emotionally speaking. I blame the full flower moon in Scorpio for my big, deep feelings. How has it been for you? Are you still locked down, or are y… Read More
Let’s face it: Mother’s Day can be problematic. It posits an idyllic relationship where none (or a difficult one) might exist. It pits women against each other in subtle ways (ch… Read More
Well, so here we are in May. How are you? Depending on where you live, you have been practicing social distancing for almost two months now. It’s unnerving to think of how we will inte… Read More
The only ignorance that is bad, I maintain, is that which is willful. I admit I am ignorant of this poem and only just recently discovered it. I would like to say I am better acquainted with… Read More
So it’s about 70 degrees outside as I type this from my aerie facing 35th Street in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore. Just now, I can hear a firetruck and, over that, my neighbor… Read More
This house is where I spent the first few years of my childhood in western Maryland – one room, three floors (if you count the dirt basement), and no hot water. It’s strange to m… Read More
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” Frederick Buechner As I type this, Khristian is teaching cooking on Zoom to his pre-K class… Read More
Just and only this small offering today. Goodness. Dropping Keys The small woman Builds cages for everyone She Knows. While the sage, Who has to duck her head When the moon is low, Keeps dro… Read More
This week’s Links to Love, friends. I hope you are ignoring the idiot-in-chief’s stupid plans to re-open the country without any plans for widespread testing and no real hope of… Read More
For you, on this Earth Day, a reminder: The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit. There are two sides of me warring inside as we continue with this pandemic, even as the e… Read More
Yesterday was SHITTY. It doesn’t really matter which day “yesterday” actually was because, let’s face it, no one really knows what day it is, and if they say they do… Read More
Today’s poem is by me and was published by Plainsongs, a journal of Hastings College Press, last summer, 2019. How optimistic things felt then, how wide open and expansive. This was ma… Read More
Can we talk about sunshine in a jar? How strange and unusual this spring has been, not only for the coronavirus, but also for the weather which is one day bluest skies and sunny sunshine and… Read More
Well, here we are, another Thursday. I am starting to use these Thursday posts as markers of time passing, like slashes on a tree to mark time when stranded in the jungle (we just binged sea… Read More
Even four or so weeks into Pandemic 2020, memes pushing productivity over peace, especially for artists, persist. I was talking with my friend Irene, co-owner of the amazing local res… Read More
I am loving this poem for a variety of reasons, and I hope you do, too. PATIENCE OF ORDINARY THINGS It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy an… Read More
So for now, here’s a picture of trees. Bluehost, the company that hosts this lovely blog, has backed me out of my new version of WordPress so that I can at least upload pictures. Much… Read More
