I love stumbling upon excellent salads. Personally, I always prefer hot foods, even in warm weather (the European in me), but an excellent salad is enough to make me … Neither too lean, nor too complicated; tasty but not drowning…
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Celebrating Citrus Haiku in the 1600s
Food and poetry go together. Like emotion and metaphor. Like appetisers and champagne. Like boogity-boogity-boogity-shooby-shoowop-shabop (name that tune!). I so much enjoyed celebrating melons in the 1600s, I’m doing it again, celebrating citrus haiku with Japanese poet, Basho. lemon flowersrecalling…
The Old Apple Tree
Growing up, we had chickens, two apple trees, a pear tree, a mandarine tree, a lemon tree, onions, capsicums, carrots, an almond tree, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, corn … there was always something my mother was harvesting. She was a…
Sublime Thyme Time
I was slow-cooking this beef onion stew yesterday, when halfway through I realised what it needed most was more thyme. As you see, I threw in a big handful, and, later, even more. Lovely, heavenly thyme, so slender and delicate,…
The Moon and A Poem
While the primary purpose of the website’s about recipes, I have put “writing and life” in the description. That’s also part of what I’m hoping to pass on to my daughter. So, here’s some writing — a haiku. I enjoy…
The Road Less Traveled
What got me thinking about Robert Lee Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” was a reunion with old friends. I was the least successful amongst a group of strong individuals. That shouldn’t bother me, but … I always thought Frost’s poem…
Beauty Of An Old Faded Recipe
The Japanese term wabi-sabi explains what I love about the old, faded recipe in the photo below. Wabi is about the beauty of “less is more”, including of having less, and of being grateful for a simpler life. It’s about…
That’s How the Light Gets In
There’s a universal truth: most of us are really just trying the best we can, the best we know how. It’s easy to be critical. It’s hard to let go. One of the main things I’ve learned over years in…
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained, and A Poem
I don’t know if this site will have any more than a readership of one, but you only live once, right? Worse than the fear of trying, is not trying at all. So, recipes for life? lifestyle? life in general?…
