Coconut cake

Under the weather again. (Obviously this is what comes of working too much for too long. Let that be a lesson to me.) Fortunately, I have the day off. In fact, my only appointment is at 6 pm when Jenny Amber and I will be making Ina Garten’s recipe for coconut cake. I love coconut [...]

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Autumn is Here

Well, we’ve got a rainfall warning, and that means that autumn has finally arrived. We’ll have city-wide damp basements and soggy feet for the next few days, as city crews curse the Garden City’s tree-lined streets and scramble to unplug drains.
Despite the torrents, we decided we’d better venture to the grocery store, or it’s [...]

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Been a Long Time

It’s harvest season, which means that today after work at the cafe, I trotted to to the market up the street and bought 20lbs of food in root vegetable and apple form.
I’ve been in the kitchen since about 11:30, paring, peeling, chopping, coring, sorting, washing. Everything that’s getting processed today is on the stove, [...]

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On Cleaning and Cleaners

I know that those of you who tune into this blog don’t tune in for the homemaking stuff. Just like people who fly don’t fly to get the peanuts. But they do get them (the peanuts, I mean) and so you’re about to get a homemaking tale.
I ran out of my usual bathroom cleaner, oh, [...]

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Dinner Tonight

I said to Adam, “God, there’s got to be better vegetables than these on the island” last time we were in a grocery store. Everything is from Mexico, so hard that it’s inedible or has a flat spot that will turn to mush or mold inside of six hours. It’s fucking summer in the most [...]

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Domestic day today. Cleaned everything. Vacuumed everything. Made dahl and non-tandoori naan, and am about to pull up my hideous scarlet runner beans. They’ve turned pale and blotchy and aren’t fruiting. They’re probably starving, because I planted too many in the pot and don’t fertilize a great deal. No matter what I do the beans [...]

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Chocolate and Rosemary Ice Cream

I had this jar of last year’s rosemary that I needed to use up. So I made ice cream (here’s how), but instead of infusing vanilla into the cream, I melted the chocolate and then stirred in a palmful of the rosemary in. I let that steep while I cooked the egg and strained it [...]

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Dinner

I’ve been working hard at, erm, work. Not writing much and I’ve decided to post live novel project stuff once weekly so I don’t obsess about it.
Speaking of obsession, I’m cooking like a madwoman for reasons unknown. I’ve done two salads, one a tomato salad, the other potato with vinegar mustard dressing (and green beans, [...]

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The Door Comes Home

I recruited a good friend with a trucky-type thing to help me get my door home. This after borrowing another friend to help me get it from the ReStore to the shop. We got the door in and stashed it in Adam’s parking spot. I immediately became concerned that someone might have seen my beautiful [...]

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Food links

After my post on Science and Baking I got a few tips from blog readers. They were great, and I wanted to share them:
Flannelberry told me about this site, where you can learn how to smoke, cure, can, freeze, dry and store food.
Jason suggested the book I’m Just Here for the Food if you like [...]

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