I am a lackluster and dilatory blogger these days to be sure. My apologies, I shall endeavor to be more interesting in public where people can see me rather than doing what I have been doing, which I must admit has mostly consisted in being uninteresting in private, trying to write and do eldercare and [...]
Some years we have a traditional American Thanksgiving meal at my house. Turkey, dressing, green beans, sweet potatoes, green salad, pie, relish tray, that sort of thing. And some years we don’t. A couple years ago, I made a dim sum Thanksgiving, with lots of different kinds of dumplings and steamed things and fried things. [...]
Tagged beans, cabbage, pork, sauerkrautThe air is getting cooler here. It was almost cold this morning when I walked the dog, thrilling to feel on my bare arms while we walked the sun up out of the clouds. I am thinking about fall, my favorite season of the year, and how grateful I am that I will be spending [...]
A couple folks have asked, so here’s the approximate method for DIY salt-fermented chiles. You need about a pound of chiles of your desired degree of hottitude. Wash them, remove the stems, and chop them coarsely. I often bung them in the food processor and whir them until they are mostly coarsely chopped with a [...]
Tagged chiles, picklesToday was one of those days. Some exquisitely pricey and uncomfortable dentistry was involved. So was the death of one half of my ten year old pair of Yaktrax and my subsequent slipping and falling on Baltimore’s indifferently maintained sidewalks. There was also the discovery that some of Baltimore’s Finest — by which I mean [...]