I remember Sundays when I was growing up as being rather groggy and lethargic days. Finally the adrenaline of the week had run out, and the sharpness of mind rendered from low sleep and cramming for tests between field hockey practice had faded. After a week of churning out delicious dinners with the required starch-vegetable-protein …
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Mood and food
(I like rhymes. I like words with “oo”s.) Most of the professional bakers I have met are really relaxed people: never in a rush, they always pull things out of the oven at just the right time. They don’t fiddle anxiously with the lemon curd in mortal fear of it curdling or hover over the …
A story
The other day I went to the drugstore. While I was waiting in line at the register the lady in front of me was debating out loud with herself whether to get the package of pudding that was all chocolate flavour or half chocolate and vanilla. She chose all chocolate because apparently her granddaughter likes …
C is for courgette…
…and for clear countertops 🙂 In a continued effort to clear our counters of its population of yummy veggies that have been gifted to us, I made zucchini and apple fritters for a picnic lunch with the Muffin Man. Beside some curlicues of shrimp, they were a light and pleasant treat on an early fall …
Swimming in the Red Sea
We are swimming in tomatoes. Since we know super fantastic people who grow their own vegetables, we have been inundated with piles of fresh produce. Piles! I haven’t seen the surface of the countertop in weeks, mostly because of the tomatoes lined up on it. God forbid I pile them into …
Tot-oro
The street outside our building is a crunchy carpet of acorns, a harbinger of colder months up ahead. You know what I think about when I see acorns? Totoro. I grew up watching the movie, “My Neighbor Totoro,” which is about two girls who move to rural Japan and discover a big furry creature …
tip 21.
Tip #21 from The Muffin Lady: “To avoid wasting the delicious vegan chocolate icing (chocolate + tofu) caked onto your immersion blender, immediately make a smoothie with strawberries and soy milk, so the chocolate gets washed into the smoothie!” Yeahhhhh.
Cool summer
It’s summer, and I’m going to state the obvious: it’s hot. Summer means feeling the balmy wind on my legs, my face sticky with watermelon juice, and bright evenings filled with potential. It has an expansiveness and sense of promise that only sunshine and heat can invite. Still, sometimes, I yearn for winter. I …
I heart immersion blender
Immersion blender, you’re the best,The way you blend I can’t protest,Smoothies, soups, purees and more,Why did I not have one before? I loooove my new immersion blender. My big boxy blender broke a few weeks ago, and it was a blessing in disguise. $19.99+tax later, I have a delightful new immersion blender that puts my …
tip 43.
Tip #43 from The Muffin Lady: “People will have no choice but to like you if you give them a layered cake in a jar.” Truer words were never said.