The Monosyllable of the Clock can be Love, Love, Love – Fish Tacos and Thai Basil Dumplings

In the fleeting moments of another fleeting Sunday evening, we make time to feed ourselves. A few hours of heating spices and loosening vegetables from their fibers and adding sprigs of color to the plate like painters their palette. I’ve been reading Tennessee Williams through again, Streetcar Named Desire. The week his play debuted in […]

Shrimp and Pork Dumplings

We have the pleasure of welcoming KP’s parents to New Orleans and on my first day off in two weeks, we had a leisurely breakfast of eggs and toast to follow last night’s feast of shrimp and pork dumplings. Ralph and Marilyn are fantastic examples of how wanderlust and a sense of adventure should ripen […]

Thai-Glazed Corn Shrimp Dumplings

I have been tickling my dendrites with jazz, coating my tongue in dark chocolate, and then the word dumpling happened, and I felt Minnesota leak under the windowpanes like a draft. Dump-ling. It sounds like what it dares to do to me. But, oh. With Thai glaze—not so dumpy. I’m headed to a warm place, […]