Breaking fast (9.9)

I finished my juice cleanse last night, and didn’t hop out of bed at midnight and get myself a bowl of shreddies as I longed to. I wanted to finish it properly, and make a ritual marking of breaking the fast this morning. (9.9 – #253) Which I did. I went out first thing to…

Juice Cleanse: Day 2

Day 2. When we were in Brazil, watching the harpy eagle chick, on our third day, poor little Bonita hadn’t seen her parents with food in a few days, and she went to the nest and gnawed on some dry, empty bones. That’s how I feel. (9.7 – #251)

9.6 Juice Cleanse

Whose idea was this? #250 Day 1 of a three day juice cleanse. Verdict on first sip: a bit carroty and not as bad as I thought. Not sure why I thought this was a good idea, but after all that meat last weekend, and a year of gluttony, a bit of a signal to…

#163 & 175 Potatoes and Rhubarb

I have no desire to go Live Off the Land, as one of my facebook contacts yearned to do yesterday. But I do love plucking food straight from Finch’s garden. The first potatoes of the year, just before I went home last time. (#163, 06.10) Finch grubbing them out. I was freezing. He was in…

06.15 (#167) Meat boy

Met A and E for bbq at the gobble gobble slurp meeeeeeat place on Friday. The sweet waiter boy had the best “meat is murder” shirt as he served us our fred flintstone sized platters of ribs. (#167) The neighbourhood is awash with hipster fedoras and other similar accoutrements. Like bacon-everything. I can’t complain, though,…

#62 (03.02) Eating in the Dark

My friend Jess has a little list of “things to do” that she keeps in her wallet, the kind of things some people call a bucket list.  (I never understood the origin of that term).  For about three years, she’s been asking if I wanted to go to the restaurant where you eat in the…

52 – English Pancake for Shrove Tuesday (02.21.12)

I didn’t make pancakes for lunch, as promised, because I was stuck in the Endless Index.  And we went out for Italian food, where they surprised us with complimentary pancakes for dessert. They were English pancakes, of course, lacy and sweet and lemony, which I could be very persuaded to love a lot more than…

#39a Cod “yolk” at L’enclume (02.08.2012)

This may have been the most exquisite dish I’ve ever eaten, notwithstanding the foie gras sushi at Uchi in Austin.  Described as cod ‘yolk’ with ham and radish, salt and vinegar, it was a miracle of gastronomic chemistry and artistry. Technically, this was the second course, but the first included three different delicacies, and there…

#38a (02.07.2012) Aerated parkin meringue

For my birthday, we had a romantic little jaunt to the Lake District, with two dinners at one of the highest rated restaurants in England, L’enclume.  The surfeit of food needs its own acknowledgement in images.  This is the last course (the 9th!) on the first night — aerated parkin meringue. I actually finished the…

#37 Mortar & Pestle (02.06.12)

I crushed garlic, mint, rosemary and lemon for lamb chops with this heavy mortar and pestle last night, and noticed how the kitchen is feeling more familiar.  I’m posting below something I wrote last June about the experience of being in a kitchen created by someone else.  The tools are gradually starting to feel like…