Full Gastronomic Tilt

Flip. flip. Flipflip. flip. Cookbook after cookbook. I had agreed to whip something up for a 10 person gathering - mostly vegetarians, one vegan, one gluten allergy. I thought something hearty, warming and fulfilling would be appropriate before extended discussion involving, among other things, community building.
What’s more communal than soup? What’s more friendly, vegan [...]

Listening: Regina Spektor’s new album, Far
Perfect for a quiet Sunday afternoon in the kitchen.
It is truly fall here in the North Carolina mountains. The temps have dipped below 40 degrees and I’ve added a few more blankets to the bed, stubbornly resisting turning on the heat. The drop in temperature has jump-started my cooking creativity. [...]

June is drawing to a close, and in its wake is an exhausted and frazzled, yet strangely happy me. A month of change, of newness, June has presented many opportunities and challenges and left me feeling like I can leap tall buildings and solve a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded. Though I haven’t had the time to [...]

[Pretty chowder pictures to come later tonight. It has been a busy week!]
More often than not, I Twitter my dinner plans. A bit of participatory food geekery, if you will. I get instant feedback: “What ingredients?” “Which recipe?” “What else ya makin’?” and people reply with their own dinner plans. Seems silly, but [...]

EDtF, Day 5.
My apologies for the obvious lack of pictures this week. The dishes I’ve made just haven’t wanted to flirt with the camera. And my “photographer” is out of town.
So here’s a picture of Penguin, being adorable on top of the fridge.
(photo courtesy Christopher Greene)
Awww.
And no. I have no idea what that is [...]

I love soup. Though I’ve been known to make a huge pot of soup in the middle of July (in my sweltering, non-air-conditioned kitchen), winter is soup’s time to shine. Soup has countless variations, is simple to prepare, tasty, nourishing and a comfort on cold nights.
So when my friend Devon said that she was [...]