The Way to his heart

turns out it's through root vegetables. what luck!

Mashed Celeriac with Truffle Oil and Deep-Fried Apple Bits

via Eatwell Farm by organic@eatwell.com on 1/26/11

1 large celery root, peeled and cubed 1 large or 2 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed 1/2 pint light cream 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoons salt 1 tablespoons truffle oil (optional if unavailable) 1 crisp apple, cored, peeled and diced fine 1/8 cup flour 1/4 cup vegetable oil Boil cubed celery root and potato in [...]

good job, mom: indian dinner (from space)

Kohlrabi is this winter's New Vegetable. How have I never eaten it before? It's right there in the middle of the January wedge of my food wheel (buy one for yourself!). It is a space alien vegetable and I ate the greens last week with eggs. Normal, greens. Whatevs.

I wanted to do something more interesting with the bulb/tuber of the thing. Somehow I knew India/Pakistan had the answer. The recipe site format is completely annoying, but visit nonetheless because this recipe is tight. (Tight?? Who said that?)

notes: if you don't have asafoetida, use two cloves of garlic. if you are gringalicious and don't have cardamom pods, leave them out. if, for the same reason, you fear the amount of red pepper called for, reduce at will. I didn't have a pre-mixed garam masala, so i substituted some tandoori mix. oops, shoulda used the curry powder! (on a cardamom note, did you know Bombay Creamery closed?!? I just learned that this weekend. no more rose/cardamom ice cream sundaes. sadness.)

Back to dinner: delicious. Trim the kohlrabi well or it gets stringy and yucks. If you burn the everliving shit out of half of it (like i did!), trim the burned parts and keep going. The vegetable was headed to the compost bin anyway, so whatever makes it into the gravy is how do you say? gravy. 

Serve with lentils and yogurt if you happen to have them around. or soak up the gravy with any old bread. YUMMEH.

success

http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/04/new-york-cheesecake/

EAT IT

on modern dance

you are a genius, and you know who you are.

"the thought of watching a whole show makes me want to vomit piranhas." 

graham "crackers"

yummy! 

i made a mess of these, spilling the sugar/butter/egg mixture around the kitchen (and myself), so then i just added ingredients willy nilly. it turned out well! The boy ate all the batter left in the bowl, commenting "loooks like peanut butter". he's right. I didn't roll it out quite enough because there was so much darn batter and it was almost naptime, so the baking time was longer and they're not so much crackers as thin cakes. whatever!

next time: follow the recipe. substitute agave & barley malt for the 6T sugar, and find a honey that's less than $12/lb for the honey portion. 

the boy has cookies. amen.

new year, baby

i waste so much time thinking about boys!! i met a woman this weekend who does relief work in Haiti and who has worked in Darfur. A friend summarized "when you talk to her, it's always a boy problem."

seriously, ladies. enough!!

right? 

and so, i resolve:

yoga! 3x week. sometimes with a live teacher (budgetary limitations)

cardio! 2-3x week  (thank you, maggie, for making this totally easy at least 1x each week)

art projects! pursue them. make them up, maybe (though that is scarier than being dumped- maybe just participate more in other peoples')

get a job

continue to build the music library (amen for this one, finally)

(secret mission redacted for legal reasons)

stay healthy

get healthier in the brain (see mini rant, above)

fuck em!

2011 is mine!