If you’re staring longingly at your half-grown peas, wishing you could be enjoying that fresh spring taste right now, then I’ve got a great recipe for you! You might not know it, but the entire pea plant — shoots, leaves, flowers and pods — is edible, and all of it taste like peas. I often [...]
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Pea-wrapped Grilled Shrimp
May 29, 2009
“Good Job”
March 27, 2008
A friendly tip to all the restaurant workers out there: do not congratulate me on my ability to eat your restaurant’s food. This is a rare occurrence, thankfully, but it’s still a pet peeve of mine. I’m a fast and thorough eater, and once in a while a waiter while make some “clever” off-handed comment [...]
Hopping’ John
January 1, 2008
I came up with a great Hoppin’ John recipe today. Very easy to prepare and quite tasty. Quick-soak 1.5 cups of black-eyed peas: put ‘em in a pot with water, bring to a boil, then take off the heat and let sit for a few hours. Later, put the following in a dutch oven: 2 [...]
Best food review ever
November 10, 2007
Kate and I had a lovely dinner out at the Verve Wine Bar last Thursday. We had a flight of dessert wines to cap the evening which included a 1971 Pedro Ximenez Madeira. It’s pretty thick and sweet, and my response: “It’s like drinking a carebear!” The waiter was only slightly amused. We’d had a [...]
Molecular Gastronomy
May 27, 2007
The descriptions and photos of this dinner just blew my mind [via boingboing]: http://www.howithappened.com/2007/05/underground-menu-at-lenclume.html Kate and I had an upscale dinner last weekend where one dish featured “rhubarb caviar”. It wasn’t actual caviar, but liquid-filled blobs of rhubarb jelly. We were curious as to how it was made, and the above report provided a link [...]
Eating, Regressed
November 12, 2006
Well, apparently I gloated too soon. A few months ago a (different) set of parents in our parents group talked about how their child was vomiting, and my question to them was, “how do you tell the difference between vomit and spit-up?” Well, now I know: if it’s green and stinks and keeps going and [...]
Eating, Advanced
November 12, 2006
One of the parents in our parents’ group mentioned that his child won’t eat freshly prepared squash. He’s been eating jarred baby food and the flavor in the freshly prepared stuff is too strong. Not so with our precious Ruby! The only processed food she eats is Cheerios. Everything else is freshly prepared by ours [...]
Table Food Day 4
August 23, 2006
The night of Ruby’s first applesauce was a nightmare. She went to sleep around 8:30pm but awoke, crying, at 9:30pm. She continued wailing for an hour until finally settling down and going back to sleep. Kate’s back has been bothering her so I’ve been on bounce duty for the past few weeks. Anyway, from the way [...]
Ruby’s First Table Food
August 20, 2006
We gave Ruby her first table food tonight: tsugaru apples, picked fresh from our garden from a tree I planted three years ago. The apple was diced, steamed, mashed, thinned with breastmilk, and then promptly smeared all over Ruby’s chin. Overall she seemed to enjoy her applesauce, even if she did seem a bit confused [...]
Only So Much You Can Do
August 15, 2006
Last weekend we went to a reunion of our childbirth class. There were eight couples there, and we all told the stories of our babies’ births. About halfway through, we got to a couple who had needed to have a caesarean birth. The mother was in tears — she was a doula and a childbirth [...]