Flounder with Crab Mornay and Tomato Basil Soup

Change sings indeed as the new year has come. Houses are floating. Art installations are popping up all over town. Mardi gras is bringing out the stubborn optimism in New Orleanians this year—I am reminded daily why I choose to live here. Due to (thanks to?) the pandemic, we now have a fish guy, Dino, […]

Buldak Fire Chicken

“Body, doorway that you are, be more than what I’ll pass through,” writes Ocean Vuong. The world feels like it is on fire, and it is. Hope seems singed. “I felt things that made death so large it was indistinguishable from air,” Ocean says. People can’t breathe from COVID, from the ugly kneecaps of racism, from […]

Enough Skirt Steak and Crispy Potatoes with Salsas

Enough of the baking binges, the walks with novels, the walks with dogs, the walks just to walk further than the house is long; enough of worrying each sneeze and sniffle, enough of feverish temperature checking, tomato checking, petunia checking, chicken nest checking, checking the mail, checking the phone, checking the weather for the first […]

Lasagna with Prosciutto and Carrot Cake

RUN. Seems a prudent response to the times. It’s felt so good to hit the pavement, to rattle off the cobwebs in the connective tissue after taking half the year off for chemo. I used to think of exercise like a chore, and now it feels like a gift. To have the health to move. […]