Art, Poetry & Essays • But not necessarily in that order.
Wouldn’t it be great to have one recipe for making muffins with almost any fruit? It would be awesome. I created this universal muffin batter recipe with that thought in mind. It works well with most fruit, particularly frozen berries like blueberries, raspberries, or blackberries. It also works with sliced apples and pears. It does […]
Head full of snot. Achy, achy. If a cold bowl of cereal just won’t cut it, try soup for breakfast. Whenever I get a cold, I like to make a version of pozole for breakfast. The warm chicken broth soothes my sore throat and relieves pressure on my sinuses. Traditionally, pozole is served with roasted […]
You know the drill. Child begs for bananas. You buy a bunch. Child eats one, then refuses to eat the rest. But I thought you wanted bananas? I don’t like bananas! So you’ve got rotting black banana flavored snot on your kitchen counter. Do you scrape it off with a spoon and throw it in […]
The riotous raccoons rifled through the plums, They would have eaten more, had they thumbs. The slugs digested while the raccoons held a wake: Good-bye little plums, sweet as cake.
The pastry counter at Peet’s Coffee and Tea has almost as many shades of brown and beige as the Restoration Hardware in San Francisco’s design district. Golden brown croissants, molasses brown bran muffins, beige low fat cranberry lemon scones with white icing. And while a brown pastry may color coordinate well with a beige latte, […]