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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Postcard from Up North
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ? Victor Borge (There were three, and they had just run out in front of me across M-119. They smiled for the camera, we laughed together, and then they moved on.)
Apple butter, slow cooked
I’m making a lot of an incredibly good apple butter these days, and it all started with the oatmeal. And habits. Which I haven’t always been great at forming. It’s taken some time and thought to recognize this about myself, … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged apple butter, Apples, breakfast, Fruit, preserves, Sabre acrylic spoons, Weck Jars
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Technique: How to core and peel an apple
This week I’m asking a favor. This favor involves some work, the work of coring and peeling a whole lot of apples. I wish the fruit would just split apart with ease like an apricot so we could mindlessly slip … Continue reading
Favorite Things: Frosted acrylic spoons by Sabre
We’re smack in the middle of a color explosion up north. Green green grass, burning bushes and apples, orange pumpkins that make your head pop off they’re so vibrant piled up out in the field on the farm. And I … Continue reading
Ingredient: Apples
Here’s the thing about apples and me: we aren’t great friends. They try to get together in August and I refuse to return their calls. I once spouted off so vehemently about not eating apples in summer that a funny … Continue reading
Postcard from Up North
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind, the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind. ~ Henry James (Blue thistle. Kind despite itself.)
Roasted red pepper-walnut dip, Muhammara
I honestly had barely heard of let alone made muhammara when I worked as an intern at Boulette’s Larder in San Francisco. I had just finished culinary school and the internship was considered a two-way street: I was there to … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged appetizers, dips, muhammara, pomegranate molasses, red bell peppers, red peppers, roasted red peppers, walnuts
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Technique: How to Slice, Roast, and Peel a Red Pepper
The seeds in a pepper are annoying on lots of levels. In a hot pepper, they are the heat. You can love them or leave them. In a neutral pepper, they are not useful at all. When you cut your … Continue reading
Posted in Techniques
Tagged muhammara, red bell peppers, red peppers, roasted red peppers
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Ingredient: Red Bell Peppers
Back in August, I went to Bill’s Farm Market up here in search of red bell peppers. There weren’t any in Bill’s bins, so I asked after them. Won’t be for a good month, Bill said. You can go out … Continue reading
Ingredient: Pomegranate Molasses (dibs roman)
I never paid much attention to pomegranate molasses, probably because my own mama and most in our clan never cook with it, even though it is a common Middle Eastern flavoring. But over the last year or two, this dark, … Continue reading
Posted in Ingredients
Tagged dibs roman, muhammara, pomegranate molasses, red bell peppers
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Postcard from Up North
If you don’t know where you’re from, you’ll have a hard time saying where you’re going. ~Wendell Berry (Red barn with blue tractor. They’re helping me know where I’m from, and where I’m going.)
Kibbeh Footballs for a Football Tailgate; Play Like a Champion
One of the many great things about my home state of Michigan is that there are lots of Lebanese populating the state. This translates to one’s ability to find good Lebanese restaurants pretty much around the corner, at least if … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged arras kibbeh, Kibbeh, kibbeh footballs, kibbeh nayeh, Lebanon, oven-fried chicken, spinach fatayar
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Fall Football Tailgate: Mom’s Oven-Fried Chicken
The fried chicken for our family football tailgaters has come from some auspicious places over the years. A big bucket of extra-crispy from KFC was not beneath us (my dad liked going to pick it up, because he could have … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged Chicken, fried chicken, Menus, oven-fried chicken, tailgate food
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A Fall Football Menu: Tailgating, Abood-style
When you grow up in a college town like I did, you end up spending all of your fall Saturdays in the stadium watching football games. That was fun…but let’s face it, the tailgate party before the game has always … Continue reading
Posted in Menus
Tagged Chicken, Cookies, Dessert, fatayar, Kibbeh, kibbeh footballs, Menus, spinach fatayar
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Postcard from Up North
Don’t you agree that, on one’s first visit to Florence, one must have a room with a view? ~ E.M. Forster, A Room With a View (Storybook clouds over Little Traverse Bay, cast in the violet hour.)
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