Fasting at the banquet

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  • tomato and twice cheese tart

    well i never did done make a savoury tart. never wanted to. except that bits a lie. i did make one once before. and it was the same tart. different recipe. it was unpleasant from start to the very bitter,… Continue reading

  • braised greens

    also known as “the green thing”. having been given unutterable amounts of homework, and having been under the misapprehension that there was no such thing in this degree (it most certainly wasnt what it looked like in the brochure), and… Continue reading

  • pizza bianca

    pizza thinner. people happier. rosemary garlic and olive oil as a base is a very good place to start anything you do in your day. and this, the macbook of pizzas, is sexy and lovely and cant ever be wrong.… Continue reading

  • hummus

    well thats no way to say goodbye. i dont even like fish. and i dont go fishing. harmonious, still, silent lakes are not place for a child of mtv. gone into hibernation might have been a more appropriate sign off.… Continue reading

  • mushroom radicchio & spinach fettuccine

    this dinner was an elegant combination of the results of a food-related, dinner based, free association game* and a vision in my minds eye. my cohort had just yelled ‘pine nuts’ and ‘magnesium’. so i had a lot of thinking… Continue reading

  • sweet potato & goats cheese galette

    5 more sheets of puff pastry and 5 hours to kill. it wasnt until very recently that i felt something other than contempt for puff pastry. it was always synonymous with everything i find objectionable and it always produced something… Continue reading

  • potatoes in whole spices

    the potato, aptly described by so many great thinkers as eminently tasteless, has a bad name in this house. and with good reason. it even surprised this author to see it appear in this space. but things were rough, there… Continue reading

  • beans, feta, spinach & sumac

    sometimes in life you lose your balance. or, to quote a glorious but tragic clown, you “fall off the life horse”. sometimes its less of a fall and more of a plummet. in these times, you have two options. resignation… Continue reading

  • zucchini and basil salad

    Sometimes you want something delicate and refined. Like a zucchini and basil salad with shavings of parmesan. But then sometimes, people need a little more substance…and a little less wankery. Sometimes, these needs take place concurrently, running parallel to one… Continue reading

  • roast butternut squash & spinach risotto

    this blog was, in its most scathing critique to date, recently described as “derivative” and “boring”. the real question is not, i dont think, is this blog truly derivative and boring but rather can the ego of this auteur bear… Continue reading