CREAM OF CAULI AND KALE

 And cherry on top (with enough for a dipped dessert). Leaving solo for a few years now (since my departure from NYC), I suppose I have proudly picked up my '"fast food" cooking skills - (it didn't take long for me to sear a whole washed head of cauli in a deep pot with oil and W. African...

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JAMAICAN MOFONGO

      I was reading a fiction piece in The Review yesterday and one passage described a substantive Caribbean dish using bananas (or plantains) and yam to bind it, and when cooked through was immediately mounded on your plate. This is my version! I am using a made-up title as homage...

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AN OLD RECIPE

 The Barefoot Contessa lives in the Hamptons (NY), her home by the Atlantic sea, and she has a beautiful show in the food network cooking beautiful things. I love her relaxed demeanor in the kitchen and her tranquil teaching voice going through recipes, measures, temperatures and equipment. She's...

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CELEBRATIONS

When they were wildWhen they were not yet humanWhen they could have been anything,I was on the other side ready with milk to lurethem,And their father, too, the name like a net in his hands.- Louise Erdrich, BirthThe gift was a real peacock feather hairclip/side hat showcasing its green glittered...

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WORK FOR FOOD

     If you look close enough at the photo there is an image of a hula girl on cinder block - and I found her while clearing the side yard this morning half buried in the bio-detritus. I was preparing a food garden, at last, this tiny land had been sitting fallow since I moved here, and...

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