Thunder is shaking the house. The summer skies are darkened with heavy clouds full of water that just started spilling over onto the rooftops. I’m watching rain pelt the roof of the bright orange house next door and feeling grateful for all in life that serves to cover and shelter us. At times I am […]
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Swamp Solstice and Black Bean Shiitake Burgers for Summer Nights
“I just want your extra time…” Today we officially celebrate the longest day of the year, Summer Solstice! This year marks the first semiannual Swamp Solstice Bike Parade—a festival conjured by me, KP and our dear friend the Joneses. We noticed a summer lull in New Orleans’ social calendar, probably because most find the weather […]
Smoked Sausage Jambalaya with Bayou Fried Chicken for Fat Tuesday
As with all the best moments in life, Mardi Gras came and went in a blink. Ephemeral as a set of beads flying through the air from one outstretched hand to another. KP and I had a marvelous time with Mondo Kayo and our friends, the Wisemans, who came down from Minnesota. A Mondo Kayo […]
Grandmothers Beyond Borders Ugandan Curry
Whilst assembling the mouth-watering queue of fancy chocolate recipes for 2016, and, alongwith, a cadre of fantastic bean to bar supporters and sponsors (thank you in advance!), I am also still making non-chocolate food. The following is a recipe that had me intrigued at its title, “Grandmothers Beyond Borders”—who knew there was such an enterprise? […]
Happy Mardi Gras Red Beans and Rice
Happy Mardi Gras! Maybe next year I can convince Rochester to hold a second line parade on this important New Orleans feast day. Otherwise I gotta get me back to my Mondo Kayo. A wonderful friend sent me a post card with a quotation from Chris Rose on what Mardi Gras means… …”It is annual […]
Peanut Butter Brown Rice Krispie Treats and Stranger #1
New Year’s Resolution Case 1 of 12. Stranger 1. He is a charming boy, my adopted Peruvian son, Juan-David. For the first eleven days of January, by fluke of fate, the young suitor of my Peruvian neighbor’s daughter needed a place to stay that was decidedly not the same residence as his love, but as […]
A Retreat in Woodinville Washington
Mother Daughter Retreat in Woodinville, Washington. Sixty degrees and humid in the air, hence, big hair. Ducks in love under the picnic tables at Chateau Ste Michelle. Staying at Matthews Estate Winery. There is a theater in the bed and breakfast house, and tonight we watched Anna Karenina on the big screen, gorgeous.
A Bread Love Poem
Litany You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wine… -Jacques Crickillon You are the bread and the knife, the crystal goblet and the wine. You are the dew on the morning grass and the burning wheel of the sun. You are the white apron of the baker, and the marsh […]
Happy Mardi Gras!
It was a foggy morning in Jackson Square, and although it is raining now, it did not rain on our parade! We started marching at 7:30am, right out before Zulu. My costume was a bit cerebral in retrospect. Here I am as an anatomical heart, which seemed appropriate due to this year’s Mardi Gras’s proximity […]
Maple Glazed Oatmeal Scones
A bit of philosophizing if I may. In my narrative medicine session at Mayo yesterday, we read from an excerpt of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, a novel about a family living in rural Idaho by a glacial lake, and on the sly, a re-imagining of Moby Dick. I recommend this book more highly than most the […]