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Multitasking

Posted on November 24, 2008 | Leave a comment

I have banana bread in the oven. In the meantime, I’m eating Cheerios and reading Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food“. So far, it’s brilliant. I really hope I finish it soon, because it’s due back to the library tomorrow and I’m tired of renting, as opposed to borrowing, books. This is what happens when you borrow five books at one time and realize that you have no way of reading them all in three weeks.

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Comfort food for rainy days

Posted on March 9, 2008 | Leave a comment

This weekend was the winter farmer’s market and I picked up some gorgeous buttery baby potatoes, baby sunchokes, walnuts, and fuji apples. As soon as I got home, I sliced up the sunchokes and pan-fried them with garlic and rosemary. There’s a distinctive sweetness to sunchokes that gets me every time. I’m going to boil the potatoes, smoosh them with the palm of my hand into little medallions, and then roast them in the oven with olive oil and rosemary. The fuji apples are ridiculously crisp and sweet, and I have yet to smash open the walnuts – but I can’t wait!

A friend gave me some organic carrots and vanilla (talk about extravagance), so I did what any normal person would do and made a four-layer carrot cake with cream cheese-vanilla icing. The icing tasted so vanilla-y and creamy – remarkably like vanilla ice cream – that I ate more than a quality-control portion while waiting for the cake to cool.

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