what about the pancakes
This is not the first time. I make pancakes for myself, almost every morning. I have a line of bags of about 8 different flours/grains on a shelf right at eye level on the inside of the fridge door....
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You know what I love about the mini hagan daaz? It has its own mini scoop secured under the lid, so that when it is before the sun comes up and you haven’t memorized where the light switch is in …...
View ArticleRight or wrong
I am not sure if it is right or wrong that I cook for Ferdinand every night. I don’t care. I love to cook for him. I love getting the message every night asking me if we are going to have dinner. I...
View ArticleWhen you can’t give it up
I was all Visible Eyelashes and Big Hair for the first quarter of giving it up, but if you looked back and couldn’t find me, what happened was, my eyelashes lost their grip. My hair got wet, my team...
View ArticleHow to make bread from starter
you are my subjunctive my hope for what is yet to come I have kept starter in the refrigerator without using it for two months now. I got it going at the beginning of all this, with a dried cherry, an...
View ArticleThe other day
For no good reason, I felt joy percolate in my gut. Well, there is a reason, but it makes no sense, has no business speaking and I don’t care, because it hasn’t come around for a while and I want to...
View Articlewhat is it time for
I am in a purgatory of my mind beginning a path of questions that have haunted me for months. As if it thinks by asking again, the answers will be different. Or could be different. They are not. So I...
View Articlethe beautiful thing
is I found frozen cookies. cereal is not bad, dry, with the milk as a chaser. you don’t have to wash the bowl.
View ArticleKeep trying
If you are good at the stove or in the bed, what you are known for is nothing that anybody can put their finger on. It is magic. That is what magic is. Like Spring. Something happens subcutaneously...
View Articlewith my whole heart
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempest, and is never shaken; It is the start to every...
View Articlecomfort
The grave has begun to sink from the weight of the air above it. and the rain I suppose. and my body lying on top of him I know for sure. I stay for hours soaking up the warmth. He holds me still I...
View Articlewhen I look
When I look into my eyes I see life there. The dead are messing with my diaphragm. I am not hungry.
View ArticleIn the quiet
It is quiet now; the wind has died down like embers do. It sounds like it does in the wake of a storm that has passed. Everything has been left where it lies. I am still cooking. I found peas in their...
View ArticleLast night, on the border of Umbria and Tuscany
I made almost what I thought I would, but not exactly, so I will write it again. it was good, so it is not a bad thing to sing the same lyrics. penne with pancetta, fresh peas and caranna onions,...
View ArticleQueen of the pork chop
I like to make a fire with twigs and old leaves to start it, and then a bunch of skinny logs to make the coals. I put the pork chops on the fire with only salt. No oil until they are done. I like the...
View ArticleI am so grateful
for so many things now. I am finally living up to the expectations of the Jehovah Witnesses who came to the door on a Saturday morning when I was a kid and after I said hello, and they said I was...
View Articlethe schedule
I leave for work on a Thursday morning on the 8 am train out of Woodside, bound for Babylon. Not the ruins of the ancient Mesopotamian city, now buried under modern day Iraq; the Babylon on Long...
View ArticleYou never know
I am tired from all the things I don’t understand. Like how to deliver a perfectly timed dinner. which is important because I cook for my job. I think the issue may be, I want to let go of the idea of...
View ArticleArticle 9
I love ballroom. I love ballroom in the way you love someone who doesn’t call you for a few weeks and you are like “I am not doing that. I am better than that. I don’t need that.” And then when they...
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