Posts Tagged ‘recipe’

Here in Portland, the clouds gather and the rain begins to fall, flexing our storm-drains to overflow, 1/8 of an inch at a time. I’m not giving up on summer quite yet, but there is a large contingent of masochistic portlanders who all start to get strangely happy–yes happy–when the grey mornings and damp [...]

I had the good fortune to wish two friends of mine happy birthday this week (well, three, but one didn’t allow me to cook anything). The first occasion was a sort of haphazard surprise BBQ party–we all gathered at the birthday boy’s house and sort-of-surprised him. He’d have noticed the gathering peoples if [...]

First, the Ambien cookbook is hilarious.
CAN’T YOU SEE I’M WORKING HERE?
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I’m going ape-shit with avocados these days, enjoying every sliver of sunshine produce I can. Avocados really are one of my favorite things in the whole wide world.
This time around I was again playing with my meager pantry, but it was slightly better stocked [...]

When I’m pensive, worried or stressed out, I often find myself in my kitchen, dazed and chopping for the sake of chopping. There is an element to cooking that I find amazingly cathartic, like the concerns of real life, like the vegetables on the board, are being deconstructed into perfect squares–bite size palatable chunks [...]

Weeks ago I dumped some sliced kohlrabi into a brine in the hopes of creating something good out of something bad. It didn’t work. My tasty brine did not do much to the kohlrabi, and the damn stuff tasted like it did when fresh (meaning not much), except now covered in my tasty [...]

I once dated a girl who had celiac-sprue disease, a horrible gluten-intolerance that cripples not only your diet, but your fun quotient–so little is known about the disorder, one could get differing opinions of a product’s safety from equally qualified sources. Wine, liquors, exotic grains and food additives are all hotly debated amongst gluten [...]

I bought some kohlrabi. I’ve never worked with kohlrabi before, mostly because, well, they look like something i don’t really want to eat. The upside-down octopi of the vegetable world, or something similar. I’ve seen alien beasts on star-trek that resemble these things, sputtering at passersby with nasty, toothy grimaces that appear [...]

The SE PDX food co-op does a farmer’s market every Wednesday. I went yesterday, and ended up with some gorgeous Beets. More interestingly, one guy had a variety of mustard leaf called wave-form or something similar.
“this stuff looks good” I said.
“Try one.” said he–It was sharp and spicy unlike any mustard green I’d [...]