I’m all about seasonal cooking, but comfort food knows no season. It was an absolutely gorgeous weekend in New York City when I made chicken and dumplings, but I still had a strong craving for something warm and comforting. This dish delivered the goods. You don’t need a rainy day or a cold winter’s night [...]
Tag Archive 'stew'
Chorizo and Chickpea Stew
Posted in Recipe on Mar 9th, 2010
I love cookbooks. I collect cookbooks. Sometimes, I read cookbooks in bed before going to sleep. I have been gratified in recent months to realize that a number of people also treat cookbooks as literature, but then I had this realization: I was only using them as literature. Somehow, despite having already accrued 34 cookbooks [...]
I am back in Minnesota, land of snow and ice, for my second semester of writer school. My first week back was a bit of a downer: all ice and no snow (and strangely balmy 40 degree temperatures). But now we’re back to the way I like it here during the winter, with a fresh [...]
Red Chard, Potato, and White Bean Ragout
Posted in Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian on Oct 28th, 2009
This one’s going to be short. I am applying to law school and so am (1) stressed out and (2) pouring all of my creative writing energy into essays describing what a beautiful and unique legal sunflower I am. It really takes it out of you. This stew is straight out of the Times Recipes [...]
Strap on your lederhosen meine damen und herren, and if you don’t have a pair then for God’s sake get thee to a lederhosiery: it’s time for Oktoberfest. In most parts of the country October means leaves changing color. Here in Los Angeles we traditionally celebrate it with earthquakes and wildfires, but this year, just [...]
Here we are, at the end of 2008, in that strange limbo period between Christmas and New Year’s. No one is really going out, no one is really at work; it’s a weird feeling. And it’s all the weirder if you are alone for Christmas, as I was, even if you don’t celebrate it, as [...]