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For various reasons, people tend to think I have my dumplings together. I am here to assure you of precisely the opposite. An inconvenient alternate hypothesis, you might say, and I would agree. I am not the smartest one in the room. I am not exceedingly gifted in any discernible fashion. I am not the… Continue reading Coping with Disappointment
If you know me at all, every few months (especially in the fall when the days are getting shorter and weather is getting cool enough that I want to cook again), I'll think up a multi-course menu to feature my region's best produce and seasonal vibes. I'll invite a friend or friends plural to dinner… Continue reading Menu – October 2019
As infants, we learn first to recognize patterns. Hungry and silent? You stay hungry. Hungry and loud? Food appears. As children, still, patterns. Draw the same squigglies on a piece of paper enough times and they one day magically grow into meaning. Words. As adults, nothing new. Patterns - bigger ones, less fun, more devastating.… Continue reading The Art of Doing the Same Thing Again and Again
I'm in a Starbucks, sitting at a window seat from which my field of vision spills out like the sun onto a lightly bleached lower Spadina. It's hard to believe the Thursday rain, the February pain. It feels, even if it's not the case, that summer's speaking. It just feels that way. But I still… Continue reading Rhubarb and Mascarpone
Quickie post today, recipe only. Ube Cheesecake with Toasted Coconut Crust and Blackberries Makes a moderately tall, 9-inch cake - serves 12 Toasted Coconut Crust: 1 c unsweetened dessicated coconut 1 sleeve Maria biscuits, roughly broken up 1/3 c coconut oil, melted In a skillet, stir the coconut over medium heat until golden, crisp, and… Continue reading Ube Cheesecake
(This was written a month ago, when there actually were flurries twirling about.) I shallowly apologize for my lack of presence here, but I think real life suffices as excuse. I do plainly admit that I have struggled to consolidate my experiences on digital paper over this past year, because it has been a flurry… Continue reading Well, this is awkward…
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