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Sexy Food

February 9, 2010

Valentine’s Day leaves me cold. I think it’s a Hallmark holiday and the only people that really get lucky are the greeting card companies and the florists. I did make the effort and “do” Valentine’s Day once, many years ago. I went down to Colombian Emeralds, picked out a lovely garnet necklace and badgered Bones into buying it for me. I [...]

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Beans Love Pork

February 3, 2010

Lentils and cotechino sausage are a classic pairing and a New Year’s tradition all over Italy. I was cooking lentils last week and wanted to serve them with cotechino. But I only had a few slices of the sausage left from the holidays, not enough to serve them in the classic Italian manner. So I combined the two for [...]

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Kebabs on the Grill

October 25, 2009

Are you smarter than a sixth grader? I, apparently, am not. I do not know how abiotic factors affect biotic factors. I cannot explain estimation strategies used to determine reasonableness of solutions to real world problems. In fact, I cannot estimate at all. Whatever happened to long division? I’m definitely not smart enough for sixth grade.

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The Hillbilly Hideaway

August 2, 2009

Driving down Pine Hall Road, we leave Stokes County, cross into Forsythe County and then double back into Stokes. The churches, trailers and tobacco fields out the car window let me know, without doubt, that I’m back home in North Carolina. We’re on our way to the Hillbilly Hideaway in Walnut Cove. My father took us to the [...]

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Mango Season

July 2, 2009

“The flavor is as though nightingales were singing on the palate. The texture is like cream melting on the tongue. What the gods gorged on, on Olympus, is called nectar and ambrosia, but mangoes are plainly meant.” Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Tomato Choka

June 27, 2009

Devica plays fast and loose with her recipes, doling out vague measurements like handfuls, mounds and “as much as you want.” On the other hand, she guards the names of her food like state secrets, not to be entrusted to the likes of us. She’d been making roti for us for years before I learned that the plain breakfast roti are sada roti, [...]

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Pancake Day

April 5, 2009

It’s Sunday and the grownups’ day for a bit of a lie in. We had Audrey’s friend Mollee for a post-regatta sleepover last night and the girls informed us that they were making pancakes for breakfast. Perfect. With Mollee issuing instructions to Audrey, they proceeded to make two batches of English pancakes (what we Americans [...]

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