Ignore my little menu posts. I'm just practicing for the fictional restaurant that in my head I eventually open. And I'm addicted to Top Chef, I can't help it.
p.s. I'm really addicted to cooking right now. Want me to cook you dinner? Or to cook with me? Really, call me. Instead of going out ever, I cook extravagant meals and drink lots of wine. It's really pretty good.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Some Spring & Summer 08 menus
Menu NYC Union Square Farmers Market June 7th: Pomegranate Fennel curried lamb homemade sausage
Fresh baby spinach sauteed with olive oil
Raw milk jalapeno Cheddar cheese with homemade cranberry walnut bread
The world's best oatmeal raisin cookie with honey vanilla ice cream
Menu (summer) 6/9: From the garden southern style:
Black-eyed peas with vidalia onions and jalapenos, over white rice.
Fresh collard greens mixed with sorrel.
Green salad with edible flowers.
Menu 5/24: Scallop and Morel Mushrooms in a Cream Sauce with Fresh Basil, Thyme, White Wine, and Shallots over Orechette Pasta.
Chibatta Bread Pudding in a Markers Mark whiskey sauce.
Menu 4/30: Fiddlehead Ferns Sauted with Polish Sausage, Olive Oil, and Shallots.
Bay Scallops in White Wine and Butter, with Freshly Grown Parsley and Thyme
Fresh Local Roasted Asparagus
Menu 4/27: Fresh Tri-Colour Linguine with Homemade Pesto Tossed with Local Asparagus
Garlic Bread
Strawberry Shortcake
Fresh baby spinach sauteed with olive oil
Raw milk jalapeno Cheddar cheese with homemade cranberry walnut bread
The world's best oatmeal raisin cookie with honey vanilla ice cream
Menu (summer) 6/9: From the garden southern style:
Black-eyed peas with vidalia onions and jalapenos, over white rice.
Fresh collard greens mixed with sorrel.
Green salad with edible flowers.
Menu 5/24: Scallop and Morel Mushrooms in a Cream Sauce with Fresh Basil, Thyme, White Wine, and Shallots over Orechette Pasta.
Chibatta Bread Pudding in a Markers Mark whiskey sauce.
Menu 4/30: Fiddlehead Ferns Sauted with Polish Sausage, Olive Oil, and Shallots.
Bay Scallops in White Wine and Butter, with Freshly Grown Parsley and Thyme
Fresh Local Roasted Asparagus
Menu 4/27: Fresh Tri-Colour Linguine with Homemade Pesto Tossed with Local Asparagus
Garlic Bread
Strawberry Shortcake
Monday, June 9, 2008
sometimes...
...I want to go and live by myself on a farm. A farm by the ocean. And only eat things I grow and gaze at green and blue. And sleep smelling the earth and sea.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
I like. With Dinner.
I like driving home from during a gorgeous spring dusk with my windows open listening to the silver jews' american water, after a day in which I did every single thing I was apprehensive about, and all those things I think I did well, and going home to a pleasantly empty house to cook an elaborate recipe I invented in my head while walking in the sunshine on my break, and making the food even more delicious by using my kitchen window garden for the first time, and starting to pack for my trip to the desert while smelling my own rosemary and thyme cooking, walking barefoot in my kitchen by myself wearing my green corduroy apron and my oldest tshirt.
For those interested, the invented recipe was: Olive Oil Garlic Chicken breasts with artichoke hearts and green peppers, in a reduced sauce of fresh rosemary, thyme, parsley, white wine, tomato puree, and vietnamese chili sauce over middle eastern couscous. Inspired by the sunshine, by a recipe in the new Rachael Ray magazine, and by the book on Cuba Vanessa lent me I finished today.
For those interested, the invented recipe was: Olive Oil Garlic Chicken breasts with artichoke hearts and green peppers, in a reduced sauce of fresh rosemary, thyme, parsley, white wine, tomato puree, and vietnamese chili sauce over middle eastern couscous. Inspired by the sunshine, by a recipe in the new Rachael Ray magazine, and by the book on Cuba Vanessa lent me I finished today.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
new work and my finger
so all of a sudden I've been making the first good new work I've done in at least two years...definitely since the a.p.e show...since I feel like everything new I showed last winter and spring was really crap. and I seem to have done it without going back to the older, more traditional, paint-only stuff that was boring me.
it only took two years, but I seem to finally have figured out a way to incorporate the collage stuff onto canvas successfully. or at least I think so. To me, anyway.
and there's randomness, and text, and images from varied sources working together, and drawing. and a really textured surface.
and it's looking right.
and for some reason, even though I usually prefer to work really large, small surfaces are working for me, so I can work in my room.
and my crooked finger isn't really getting in the way.
on a little side note, I've been feeling a ton of anger about my apparently permanently messed up finger, a lot of it because I am an artist and a craftsperson after all, and MY HANDS ARE IMPORTANT damn it.
but I'm making way better work than I was before I got hurt. And before I got hurt, I was thinking maybe I just wouldn't make paintings anymore, I was so frustrated. So who knows if I would have made what I'm making now if I hadn't had all this time to think. More time than I've had to figure stuff out since I was in high school, at least. And then I wasn't using it properly.
So I guess, just take things as they come. and try not to get to angry about things that seem awful.
thank freaking god it wasn't my right hand, right? and that the only activity so far I've found that seems impossible for me to manage now is typing with both hands, and I never could do that anyway.
remember to be grateful, grateful, grateful. could have been worse, worse, worse.
I'm all over the place, so I'm going back to painting.
oh, and when I have a couple of more things finished, I'll try to take some pictures and post the new stuff on my website. Maybe totally revamp the website, since there's a lot of stuff on it that I hate. anyway, will let y'all now.
it only took two years, but I seem to finally have figured out a way to incorporate the collage stuff onto canvas successfully. or at least I think so. To me, anyway.
and there's randomness, and text, and images from varied sources working together, and drawing. and a really textured surface.
and it's looking right.
and for some reason, even though I usually prefer to work really large, small surfaces are working for me, so I can work in my room.
and my crooked finger isn't really getting in the way.
on a little side note, I've been feeling a ton of anger about my apparently permanently messed up finger, a lot of it because I am an artist and a craftsperson after all, and MY HANDS ARE IMPORTANT damn it.
but I'm making way better work than I was before I got hurt. And before I got hurt, I was thinking maybe I just wouldn't make paintings anymore, I was so frustrated. So who knows if I would have made what I'm making now if I hadn't had all this time to think. More time than I've had to figure stuff out since I was in high school, at least. And then I wasn't using it properly.
So I guess, just take things as they come. and try not to get to angry about things that seem awful.
thank freaking god it wasn't my right hand, right? and that the only activity so far I've found that seems impossible for me to manage now is typing with both hands, and I never could do that anyway.
remember to be grateful, grateful, grateful. could have been worse, worse, worse.
I'm all over the place, so I'm going back to painting.
oh, and when I have a couple of more things finished, I'll try to take some pictures and post the new stuff on my website. Maybe totally revamp the website, since there's a lot of stuff on it that I hate. anyway, will let y'all now.
creatively busy
After more than three months off recovering from the tendon injury, I'll be back to work, very soon, and it struck me the other day how when i first got hurt, I was really freaked out by the free time, and now how even without work, I seem to be incredibly busy. I have like eighteen projects going at the moment. I guess part of the change is simply that I've gotten used to functioning despite my crooked finger. But also I think I've gotten better about being motivated with my own free time.
Right now I am actively:
1. trying to finish reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
2. reading the Omnivore's Dilemna
3. making handmade valentine cards and mailing them to people
4. working on four different paintings (which are turning out really well, I think)
5. knitting a pair of socks
6. crocheting a present which is secret so I cannot say more
7. trying to teach myself to do needlepoint
8. making sure I draw and collage in my sketchbook regularly to keep my visual thoughts focused
9. reading this week's new yorker so I don't have piles of unread new yorkers lying by my bed
10. remembering to keep trying out new and complicated recipes while I have time to shop and cook and don't have to spend all day dealing with other people's food needs
11. putting together a valentines day package
see? that's a lot. even today, with weather so miserable that I've not left the house except to run to the store for snacks, I've been so busy in my room that this is the first real break I've taken since I got up around 9. anyway. it's been a pretty nice day.
Right now I am actively:
1. trying to finish reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
2. reading the Omnivore's Dilemna
3. making handmade valentine cards and mailing them to people
4. working on four different paintings (which are turning out really well, I think)
5. knitting a pair of socks
6. crocheting a present which is secret so I cannot say more
7. trying to teach myself to do needlepoint
8. making sure I draw and collage in my sketchbook regularly to keep my visual thoughts focused
9. reading this week's new yorker so I don't have piles of unread new yorkers lying by my bed
10. remembering to keep trying out new and complicated recipes while I have time to shop and cook and don't have to spend all day dealing with other people's food needs
11. putting together a valentines day package
see? that's a lot. even today, with weather so miserable that I've not left the house except to run to the store for snacks, I've been so busy in my room that this is the first real break I've taken since I got up around 9. anyway. it's been a pretty nice day.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
bike trail chronicles
bank employee looking person 1: "so they had mussels, fried oysters..."
bank employee looking person 2:"fried oysters!!!?????? they can fry oysters? how? does it work? are they really fried? that's crazy!"
this made me laugh because it sounded like something a whole foods customer would say. well, you don't fry them with the shells on, sir. people don't ever think before they open their mouths, it seems.
p.s. if you haven't noticed, I take a lot of walks since I haven't been working. chronicles of the housebound. well, I'm not really housebound anymore, I can drive. But it's still nice to take advantage of the free time to exercise.
bank employee looking person 2:"fried oysters!!!?????? they can fry oysters? how? does it work? are they really fried? that's crazy!"
this made me laugh because it sounded like something a whole foods customer would say. well, you don't fry them with the shells on, sir. people don't ever think before they open their mouths, it seems.
p.s. if you haven't noticed, I take a lot of walks since I haven't been working. chronicles of the housebound. well, I'm not really housebound anymore, I can drive. But it's still nice to take advantage of the free time to exercise.
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