October 2010
14 posts
oh my goodness. i say that a lot these days! i haven’t been writing because i simply haven’t had the time. and i’ve not been online. after days of everything, with beer and bare legs, i cooked a ton of leftovers for myself last night. there’s a certain pride in eating up all the food you’ve bought at the grocery store over the last week or so. snacking charcuterie...
rainy day pork shoulder rigatoni
this sunday morning, i’m writing from the couch with coffee in my hand and banana bread in the making, skyping and trying to avoid my mom’s questions about my lack of career. and the weather outside. i’m clearly not afraid of much - unfazed by mice, unemployment and walking the dog through the mission right after sf giants qualified for what is called “the world...
just hung up on my dad. he gave me some fatherly advice about “start making money” and a couple of useless advices about what to do when you have a cold (which includes me running to the pharmacy to ask about his claimed to be “best cold medicine in norway”, a very strong menthol salve to put under your nose).
i have the fall cold, and no amount of coffee, ice cream or...
even pretty nice days in the fall feels like fall. the sun is low, my head is congested and i’m wearing a wool cardigan. since i am feeling a little under the weather, i want to make something easy for dinner. i bought some sausages and will make some cauliflower salad to go with. the best way of making a cauliflower taste like something more than…nothing, is to steam it very...
when something seems too good to be true, it most often is. that’s what i keep telling myself, writing from the garden of my dreams, drinking coffee brewed with coffee collective roasted coffee beans flown in from copenhagen and watching flocks of geese flying over the mission to go to wherever they need to go when it’s almost winter. it’s definitely colder, and yesterday it...
yesterday’s afternoon pasta fest was a hit. a friend came over and i made tagliatelle and ravioli with my roommate’s italian pasta rollers - not as good as a machine, but better than the wine bottle i used to make it with. served the tagliatelle with tons of heirloom tomatoes and the mushroom, panchetta and sage ravioli was swimming in chicken broth. it spelled “ryan brown i...
everything happens and silverskin too
what do you do when everything happens at the same time? the two weeks that has almost passed since i left my regular day job, i’ve been busy-dizzy-head-in-the-skies. it’s been weeks of everything.
it’s been the good food awards and video chats. emails about love and lust, dreams and nothing in particular. baths, swims, breakfast burrito, dog walking, lost keys, found...
post gfa thoughts and interchangeable calories
post good food awards, i am amazed how smoothly everything went and how fast it was all over. had to take some days off blogging, just because there weren’t enough time. i met some very talented people, and tasted a huge amount of coffees. unfortunately, i can not rave about who won, and what their coffee tasted like just yet - winners will be announced on nov 15th.
chris tacy gave some...
i made dinner for my girlfriend last night - without a fuzz or wondering about what to make. alice waters guided me through dinner. i simmered chicken with tomatoes, onion and beans (alice) and served it with lightly steamed brussels sprouts (me). i think my favorite food to serve guests is food that practically cooks itself while i do more important things. like, helping my cousin with school...
my fooling around with grilled cheese makes me have bread leftovers everywhere all the time. to my roommate’s despair, noone really likes having old bread sitting around. today, i found half a country bread sitting on top of the fridge.
to be honest, there’s a lot of lunch pleasure to be found in an old loaf of bread. while i most often have fresh bread in the house to accompany...
yesterday afternoon, after cooking myself dinner and still having work to finish i started baking feverishly - producing an apple cake that i brought over to a friend’s house for dessert. who mistook the two quarts i brought over for being only for him and ate it all. back in my own kitchen a little past midnight, i unhooked my bra and ate apple cake and had a glass of milk. eating past...
need rhum to rhumba?
i’m blogging out of pure desire to be distracted from my non-excisting plan for work and all the things i have promised to finish before the next time you blink. it’s almost like i’m considering getting a real job. not really. but that was funny.
i had mushroom stuffed pasta and some fabulous cocktails yesterday at range, and i’m seriously considering learning how to...
it's alive - let's eat it!
just north of san francisco, you can eat locally grown, delicious oysters. i bet there are hundreds of thousands of oysters, just waiting for you if you take the drive up through the dramatic scenery of highway one to tamales bay, sheltered by the point reyes peninsula. it all smells like salt water and eucalyptus, and it must be one of the most exotic places on this planet. oysters lives...
princess ice cream leaves work
today, i worked my last day in the office. fridays have always been weird, and today was empty, busy, dizzy - and that was work. bye-bye office lady, hello freelance future. it’s been nine months of fun and frustration - hard to believe that nine months ago i cried every day out of loneliness and homesickness! through food adventures, new friends and a dog, i feel more centered. i also...
