CURRY LEAF CROUTONS AND BLUE-DYE JASMINE

The difference between a flower and a weed is inconsequential. I agreed with this statement sent by my childhood friend the other day, responding to a photo I had sent her of a diminutive bouquet of wild summer blooms neatly set on my dining table. I said, Yes, it's all about the design and intention....

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EDIBLE SUNDAY

    My childhood friend is here visiting, she is juicing local tangerines in the kitchen while I think of brunch. I am prepping some salad edibles for possible inputs and she asks this question: How is cooking such an efficient process but with a goal of inventiveness capturing the imagination...

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COLD COMFORT

Avocado "Ice Cream" SandwichPre-chill fruit and generously scoop on a German mestemacher bread (buttered and mustarded), over the alfalfas sprouts and mint leaves. Season ("for toppings") with the "syrup" of red wine vinegar, salt and pepper, and olive oil - in that cascading order. This is a very green...

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SUMMER BASKET

I relished the feel/of my hands gripping the wide handle bars/and my body hoisted above the earth./I straddled those wanting to speed, to soar,/over the smooth road between houses where/I might ride to its end and turn into the world. - Sharan Strange, The Bicycle Wizard, The...

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PB&J

    Protein, Butter (Lettuce) and Jam (Mustard). Lightly toasted sourdough bread to soak up the lima stew and assert all its rich herbaceous-ness. Working hard means replenishment eating. Reading Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange, makes me hungry. Fast sandwich I'm starving this...

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