Remember when I blogged every day for a month (almost)? Sigh. I am mildly obsessed with tarragon right now. I bought a fresh bunch the other day and used it to roast chicken with shallots and meyer lemon, and am now trying to decide what to do with the rest… I think I might mash [...]
I would really enjoy spending today inside a movie theater, but unfortunately I’ve left my homework for the very last minute (as I do), and need to write up a response to a book chapter and a one page journal entry for class before 4:00 PM. I keep thinking I’ll learn to do things differently, [...]
“Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it” (always with the sleeping, Fiona…)
I chose to title today’s entry with the above quote as a way of paying penance. I’m enjoying what Wikipedia has to say on the subject, like for example that “the word penance derives from Old French and Latin poenitentia, both of which derive from the same root meaning repentance, the desire to be forgiven.” [...]
Today I find myself getting a little day-dreamy about berries. I weigh the virtues of raspberries vs blackberries and realize that while frozen raspberries are my salvation when it comes to a good smoothie, I think I have to go with blackberries when it comes to fresh… mostly because raspberries just deteriorate too quickly, poor [...]
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at [...]
A week or two ago I decided that I wanted to make cacik, which is essentially the turkish version of greek tzatziki. Since I opted not to check an actual recipe until after I’d finished my dish, I ended up using only dill instead adding mint as well (although varying recipes say you can use [...]
Garlic+Greens Olive Oil+Tomato Yogurt+Dill Coffee+Cream Apple+Fall Campari+Soda Pear+Goat Cheese Bird+Parish+McHale Garnett+Pierce+Allen Avocado+Lime Chili+Lime Egg Yolk+Toast+Salt+Pepper Rain+Sleeping In Pickled+Ginger Snow+Boots Miso+Scallions Beans+Rice Lemon+Sugar+Water+Ice Lobster+Butter Oatmeal+Berries H2+O
My first draft working title for this blog entry was “Fiona Likes Lists”, but the sentence structure was a little too “Debbie Does Dallas” for me. Anyhoo… I am not even pretending to write a paper this afternoon. No, that’s not true. I am making every effort to pretend to write a paper. My books [...]
Above is an Iranian Proverb I came across while perusing the world wide web on day. I copied it into a document and tucked it away for another day, knowing I would undoubtedly use it as a jumping off point for a blog post (as I tend to do). At the time, I thought I [...]
