After my failed attempt at recreating the finicky momofuku compost cookies, I concluded that it’d be much easier to take your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe and just add a bunch of your favorite snack foods and candy. So when I told someone I was doing so, they exclaimed, you’re making garbage cookies! So apparently [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Seasons in Maine
Posted in bitching about the weather, family, farmers' market, friends, relationships, sailing, veggies on November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I just got back from the Deering Oaks Farmers’ Market in Portland, where the stalls are thinning and the crowds are slowing, but there’s still plenty of great produce. Brussels sprouts; all manner of squash; heaping piles of kale, chard, and cabbage; wooden crates of apples… even cherry tomatoes and green tomatoes still. And yet [...]
Cooking and the Single Life
Posted in Chinese, comfort food, Food Network, pasta, recipes, relationships on November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An old friend John used to make (and maybe still does) big batches of food and eat them for every meal. As you can probably guess, John was a bachelor at the time. As a happily coupled young twenty-something, I thought this was so strange. I was enjoying domestic bliss, staying in a friend’s house [...]



