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phi @ 2017-04-10T09:20:00

2017-04-10T13:24:01Z

Hallooo!

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phi @ 2016-12-02T16:14:00

2016-12-02T21:16:31Z

Yo, I found my sweet potato bisteeya recipe in email, and I don't think I ever posted it here.

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phi @ 2016-10-14T10:34:00

2016-10-14T14:47:12Z

While unpacking I finally found my fountain pens, and also unearthed a stack of old postcards from previous vacations--I always buy more postcards than I actually manage to write and send. Also today my "hooray you survived this miserable summer" present to myself arrived, including a set of postcards from Svitz, the fictional European country featured in the Welcome to Night Vale podcast. And it's that time of year when everything starts being depressing and cold and grey. I'm in particular need of distractions right now because the meds I'm on have made circus and crossfit next to impossible, and that's not going to change before the end of the month.

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phi @ 2016-06-03T17:42:00

2016-06-03T21:45:45Z

I have one spare ticket to see Takarazuka perform Chicago at the Lincoln Center in NYC, Saturday evening, July 23. It cost $108.50. Anyone want to buy it off me? If you are unfamiliar with Takarazuka, they are a badass all-women theater revue from Japan, that dates back to the days when women were forbidden by law from performing in the theater. They're awesome and very rarely tour outside of east Asia. I think the last time they came to the US was in the 80s.

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Recipe post

2016-04-24T02:09:07Z

So I have no idea how to spell this and google isn't helping (I suspect if I could read Arabic google would have been more useful) but we make fareekh (sp?) tonight. As far as I can figure, based on Mike's description of foods his mother and grandmother made, fareekh is a catchall word for chicken casseroles. Apparently grandmère has a thing for béchamel sauce, so her version of this always included it, and usually rice. I do not have a thing for béchamel sauce, so here's my version, a bastard hybrid of a recipe from A Book of Middle Easten Food and a meal I ate at my mother-in-law's once upon a time. It is cheap, easy, and delicious, so I don't know why I keep forgetting it exists and rediscovering it. Maybe journalling about it will help it stick in my head.

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phi @ 2015-11-05T16:34:00

2015-11-05T21:56:35Z

sovay requested I write up the 20 minute weeknight dinner I produced before square dancing class Tuesday night.

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Recipe post: Lemon Couscous

2015-07-27T17:55:21Z

Make plans with your lover to cook an elaborate middle eastern dinner, starring the preserved lemons you put up last month.

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bbq recipes!

2015-05-06T02:39:58Z

Sunday night I found myself needing to pull together a meal for someone with food allergies at the last minute--ratatosk and I had mostly finished preparing food when we decided to invite Fish to join us for dinner, and nearly everything contained ingredients that Fish can't eat. Luckily R had some chicken breasts in the freezer, so I mixed up a Fish-safe barbecue sauce and we threw those on the grill first, before the Fish-death-burgers went on.

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Ask the internet

2015-05-05T18:36:14Z

What's your favorite dish to bring to a potluck, and why? Bonus points for recipes!

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Recipes!

2015-03-16T02:52:36Z

Here's what I served last night for Novroz (observed). For the record, I feel really guilty that I didn't get my act together to grow sabzeh (sprouted wheat) or make samanu (pudding made from sprouted wheat), nor did I manage to assemble the haft-sin table. But I did get all the traditional good-luck foods, and I remembered to light candles! My restrictions for this meal were: no dairy, no nightshades, no sunflower, no almonds, no honey, no gluten, and any other nuts had to be easy to pick out and eat around. I planned for twelve people, and ended up having fourteen. There was enough food for everyone with a tiny amount of leftovers, but it was a near thing, and I should have made twice as much salad and half again as much kuku.

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phi @ 2015-02-06T18:03:00

2015-02-06T23:03:23Z

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phi @ 2014-12-25T11:19:00

2014-12-25T17:53:24Z

I haven't done a recipe post in forever. Here's what I'm bringing with me to Christmas dinner tonight:

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phi @ 2013-12-01T21:50:00

2013-12-02T04:01:47Z

For metaphortunate: Foods that make good leftovers. If you want to play too, give me a topic here.

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Recipe post!

2013-11-30T05:15:55Z

I made up some things for Thanksgiving dinner that seemed to go over well (better, at least, than the cornbread stuffing that was closer to bread pudding than stuffing, or the thing that could accurately be called jus but was meant to be gravy.). Three pounds of brussels sprouts were all gobbled up in about five minutes -- they went faster than any of the pies!

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phi @ 2013-09-04T00:39:00

2013-09-04T04:49:12Z

The other day I asked Twitter what to do with a zillion eggplants. I didn't want baingan bharta (again), really didn't want to go to the effort of making eggplant parm, and had no ideas beyond those two go-to recipes because I kind of hate eggplant and only eat it when it appears in the farm share. roselemberg responded with "bake it in the oven, then make a salad with chopped baked eggplant, tomatoes, chopped onion, chopped garlic, and olive oil." Rose continued "it is my family's variant of baba ghanoush, only without tahini."

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Another Recipe Post

2013-07-28T19:32:48Z

Drove up to Concord yesterday for a lesson exchange with kythryne. I was having Very Bad Morning, so didn't make it up in time for the arts market, alas, but we did have time to take Kyth's two year old blueberry picking before getting to work, and that was fun.

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Iron Chef CSA

2013-07-27T15:04:56Z

Yesterday the Senator and the Scholar were over for one last dinner together before they move away to the deep south. I have Feelings about them leaving, of course, but no one reads a post titled "Iron Chef CSA" for ridiculous emo stream of consciousness, so let's move right along to the recipes.

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Recipe Post!

2011-07-31T01:13:32Z

Tried out a couple new things last night for a smallish dinner party.

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Not so Weekly CSA post

2010-09-02T22:39:15Z

Hey, guess what? It's Thursday already and I have a boatload of veggies leftover from last Friday's CSA distribution. It's Iron Chef CSA time!

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