Great, super fast meal using store-bough fresh tortellini, the last of my farmer’s market finds from last week, along with a tasty easy sauce of butter and goat cheese. You’re done in minutes. Boiling the water will take the longest. Bok Choy Blossoms & Tortellini The tortellini is fresh from Trader Joe’s $1.99 for a […]
Baked Sundays: Brown Butter Shortbread With Saffron
April 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I am in fact, slightly evil. To make it worse, I didn’t just make an addictive brown butter shortbread, I added saffron as a mood enhancer. Brown Butter Shortbread With Saffron Yeild: 64 2″ x o.5″ baton cookies Time: 40 minutes, plus 8 hours chilling. Ingredients: 1 stick (4oz) butter 1/8 teaspoon ground saffron 3/4 […]
Eating Well: Tuna Radicchio Salad
April 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
So, “Eating Well For One On A Budget” is way too long to put in most post titles, and EWFOOAB is an ugly shortening, so, we’re just going to call the series “Eating Well” from here out so the dish name can be in the title too. First, yes this is a full and filling […]
Eating Well For One On A Budget
April 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Welcome to a new series here on how to cook for one person on a tight budget. Over the course of the week I’ll be posting what I make with all of this. $9.55 all organic, from the Berkeley Farmer’s Market. Top: Bok Choi Blossoms $1.50 (I’d never heard of them before either). Snap Peas […]
My Heart Broken Open
April 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Once upon a time a professor declared that I was a “Poetic Genius” …. Shortly after that I stopped writing. It’s only been recently that I even tried to write poetry again, I’m feeling a bit rusty most certainly, but while my beloved Guru Ma Jaya lay dying of cancer slowly slipping away from this […]
Baked Sundays: Buttermilk Lasagna
April 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Oh, hi there! I hope you didn’t think that Baked Sundays was all about cakes, cookies and sweet decadence. It’s most certainly also about savory decadence! What you’re looking at is a lasagna made with a buttermilk bechamel, layers of baby spinach, mushroom, emmentaler , chevre, leek and garlic. The noodles were made by my […]
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati – In Memory Of
April 14, 2012 by 6 Comments
I can hear her screaming, shrieking wildly with joy and abundance, it’s the scream she would let out whenever one of her Queens arrived late, trying to slink in unnoticed, and then in her thick Brooklyn accent, she’d flatly state: “You’re late.” Oh those screams and the laughter in howls and huzzahs, a cacophony of […]
Pics, it happened.
April 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
A few photos from my weekend at Syd & Ken’s fabulous Mendocino hideaway. Tweet
Baked Sundays: Recipe: Banana Bar Bites
April 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This weekend I was away visiting my friends in Mendocino, pics from that to come. While i was staying with Sydnee & Ken I got to watch as Ken made this recipe. It’s strangely fascinating to watch someone else make something from my instructions. As promised here’s the recipe for the Banana Bar Bites from […]
Getaway
April 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Spring Break for the kids at school and the adults that work there too. I’m in a sacred place far from the likes of partying spring breakers and girls ‘gone wild’ a spot in the ‘Emerald Triangle’ of California full of aging hippies, bikers, weed farmers, military types, and BnB’s. Of course I left the […]
