Things to do with baby black walnuts
I have a thing. A colour thing. I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before. It’s a visceral reaction to all things pigmented. Much like when around someone you love you want to shower them with hugs and pet their hair (if I’ve ever petted your hair absent-mindedly now you know why), with colours I want to [...]
Crying over smoked milk
This post is being submitted to the Wild Things roundup over at Hunger and Thirst. If you [still] haven’t checked it out, please do! Few things are as evocative as smoke. It’s primal. We humans have been using smoke since we started using fire. Which, if you think about it, was a long long time [...]
Rosemary- lavender- black pepper polenta cookies
(the magic of rosemary) During the winter, I cook with rosemary a lot. Partly because there’s a big bush outside the front door, and partly because I think it’s the perfect remedy for the winter blues. Its presence alone can light up a space and get things moving again, when it feels like the cold [...]
Rose and cardamom mava cakes
When it gets hot like this, I can’t help but think of India. Where every dusty afternoon I’d retreat to my little room and fling the windows open and the fan on, while Pushpa looked at me disapprovingly for wasting electricity. Truth be told, it was my least favourite time of day. Because everybody else [...]
Banana-almond muffins
Some things are just meant to be eaten on top of a mountain. You know, picnic style. With the cold wind whipping around your face, and the ocean far away in front of you, and the sweat on your back starting to chill but not enough that you need to get moving again. Mountain top [...]
Beet Kvass– nicer than it sounds
The first time I ever tried beet kvass, I drank it for the health benefits alone. My mind couldn’t get around the salty beet flavour, and, as it turned out, my gut couldn’t either. My digestion wasn’t that great at the time, and so after a couple of pints, I was doubled over in pain. [...]
Lavender-honey ice cream
I kinda have a thing for lavender. It started when I was at university in Santa Barbara. I was a junk-food vegan. That is, a person who is vegan who eats nothing but vegan junk foods– vegan cookies, vegan muffins, vegan pasta dishes– and assumes that they’re healthy because of the vegan label. On one [...]
Chicken Livers Redux
Visits to my grandparents’ house for dinner were always a double edged sword: on one side, I’d get to see them, get lots of love, hang out, eat the chocolates that are for guests only (did your grandparents have the chocolate stash too?). On the other, I’d have to, inevitably, eat chopped liver. My grandparents [...]
A salted caramel frozen yogurt recipe… or, 'when life gives you a failed yogurt experiment'
I had ordered a few different cultures from www.culturesforhealth.com– a viili culture, and a matsoni yogurt culture. There are special instructions to make these things with raw milk, and in my excitement, I tried to get them going a bit faster by keeping them next to the stove. I didn’t realise at the time, but [...]
If you're gonna eat liver…
Let me start this post by letting you know that I hate liver. In fact, it’s not even hatred, it’s complete and utter revulsion. So imagine my surprise a few months ago when I was walking past the meat counter in Whole Foods and my body started craving liver upon sight. Who would dare to [...]
