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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Postcard from Up North
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. ~ Dr. Seuss (Farewell summer 2012. We are smiling because you happened, and we were here.)
Labor Day Weekend Breakfast: White Peach Pancakes
I’ve waited in some long lines for good food. It’s really kind of embarrassing. When Mia Francesca was in its early years after opening in Chicago, there were no reservations, so if you wanted to eat there you had to … Continue reading
Technique: How to peel a (gorgeous) peach
Elaine Zawacki, my next door neighbor and babysitter on Wagon Wheel Lane, had a lot of tricks up her sleeve. She had to, when you think about it, since she was charged with trying to keep five wild kids at … Continue reading
Ingredient: White Peaches
I had traveled all day long to get to Vic, a town north of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. My destination was the retreat house of a group of Catholic religious sisters, where I’d be staying for 12 days while working … Continue reading
Favorite Things: little pitchers
You don’t have too look far in my mother’s homes to find little collections of things here and there. On Wagon Wheel Lane, she had a pretty line-up of miniature metal teapots on the window sill. On the piano, tiny … Continue reading
Postcard from Up North
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do. ~ Helen Keller (Sunflowers, Fletcher Road. Their petals seem to reach for the sun with all their might, making me want to, too.)
Lebanese quick pickles, and my mouneh
Something serious happened recently up north: the season changed. It’s not just the temperature, the coolness in the air, though that plays a part. There is a change in the color of the light, a movement from yellow to white. … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged carrots, cauliflower, cucumber, dill, Garlic, green beans, Mouneh, Mymoune, peppers, pickles, preserves
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Ingredient: Produce, the mother lode
This is the kind of post that defines the idea that a picture is worth a thousand words. It’s August and everywhere there is color, abundance, ripe flavor…it’s all self-evident, isn’t it? But I will say just a few, if … Continue reading
Posted in Ingredients
Tagged beets, carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, Garlic, Mouneh, peppers, pickles, produce
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Favorite Things: Weck Jars
I first saw these things of great beauty and elegance at the Heath ceramics stand in the Ferry Market building in San Franscisco. There is no denying that exceptional style, especially when it comes to food, often originates in Northern … Continue reading
Postcard from Up North
I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and … Continue reading
Michigan’s whitefish dinner: the fish
The key to excellent whitefish is not overcooking it—this seems to be our theme this week, from the new potatoes to the beans and corn, cooking times can mean the difference between delicious and not-so-much. I always loved our trips … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged blueberry cobbler, corn, green beans, Potatoes, whitefish
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Whitefish dinner: Green beans, corn and good bread
We all know that one of the great pleasures of the bounty of summer is that it tastes so good you don’t need, or want, to do much beyond getting it to the table. But as with writing, and perhaps … Continue reading
Whitefish dinner: New potatoes with dill
Your whitefish dinner simply has to include potatoes…but I do mean simply. Boiled new potatoes often find themselves on a plate next to whitefish, but sometimes they taste downright blah. No more blah potatoes! Cooked properly–in salted water and never … Continue reading
Michigan’s whitefish dinner
Up north, there is no more quintessential meal than the one that makes Lake Superior whitefish its centerpiece. Restaurants may be few here, and their food not always what we’d like, but you can always, everywhere find whitefish on the … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged corn, Fish, green beans, Potatoes, Up North, whitefish
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Postcard from Chicago
I raised to my lips a spoonful of the cake . . . a shudder ran through my whole body and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary changes that were taking place. ~ Marcel Proust (Bittersweet bakery, my Chicago favorite. … Continue reading
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