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You So Good. Miso Good.
This is my favorite, new salad dressing. It is colorful, complex and exploding with flavor. It gussies up the simple lettuce leaf or the hearty grain, turning anything it touches to gold. Really, it does. It tastes like the dressing you get on that little starter salad at a Japanese restaurant except it’s one thousand … Continue reading
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Temperance sounds a lot like temper rants. As in, forks are flying, hair is on fire and things are getting completely out of hand, yet it means almost entirely the opposite. It would be safe to say that I’ve felt more on the temper rants side of the dial in this new year than temperance. … Continue reading
This is what I knew for certain about September 5, 2011 before it arrived: 1) Hazel, my gem and inspiration of a sister, visits before she heads off to Haiti for the next year. 2) Jose hops a last-minute flight for Uganda in the early afternoon. 3) It is my birthday. I made buckwheat pancakes … Continue reading
The bells are on fire… Making this salad harkens back to those middle school science project days. It requires tongs, plastic wrap and a hot flame. The project’s pinnacle is the peeling of the burnt peppers. You’d think it would be hard, but by placing the blackened peppers in bowl covered in plastic wrap, they … Continue reading
For my birthday in early September, my friend Kristin funded a classroom project in my honor through DonorsChoose.org at Dogwood Elementary in Knoxville, Tennessee. The teacher, Mrs. Nicely (I picture her fresh and rosy-cheeked, with two crisscrossing pencils in her hair), wrote this about her students: We are an inner city school with over 88% … Continue reading
The rain has been relentless. Factor in the gusty wind and we’ve got sideways pelting wetness that renders umbrellas inside out and useless in seconds flat. I think it’s starting to turn me inside out as well. I’ve been in such a reflective state. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could tell you that this … Continue reading
Hope that they’re named Meyer. Then eat them. The end. Okay, not really. I have more to say. And recipes to divulge. But it’s getting late, so I’ll try to make this snappy. I have a confession. I love lemons. I do not love lemon desserts. I would go so far as to say that … Continue reading
Fish packets are underrated. They are easy. They are quick. The fish is happy. Or, the fish tastes happy…it is tender and delicate, just exactly as it should be. For some reason, we don’t cook fish in packets often. At least, I didn’t. Now I do. It’s a tasty present, seasoned exactly as I like … Continue reading
When I search my email inbox for “Grammy,” hundreds of results surface. Not because my Grammy was an avid emailer, but because my family wrote about her…a lot. Sometimes we wrote out of worry because she was declining – Is this the end? Sometimes we forwarded flight itineraries – I’m off to Tucson to visit … Continue reading
I got my new Cuisinart SmartPower Duet Blender/Food Processor in the mail last week. I’d ordered it from one of those daily discount shopping newsletters. I signed up because I didn’t know any better. No, that’s not true. I did know better, but I signed up anyway. I received an email every morning that highlighted … Continue reading
Nostalgic nibbles, from A to Z… A is for ARROZ CON LECHE. This man spent his evenings wheeling his cart up and down the waterfront walkway in Santa Marta. He would yell, “Arroz con Leche” in a low, twangy voice, slurring the words together so they sounded more like, “ArrozcolecheeeeArrozcolecheeee!” I bought a cup for … Continue reading
I never had an Easy-Bake oven but my friend Mackenzie did. We were friends in kindergarten. I would go over to her house to play and we’d bake little cupcakes and brownies, adding water to the Betty Crocker powder mix. I remember being underwhelmed with the oven because it didn’t get very hot – I … Continue reading
Last Friday night I sat with friends in the window booth at the Latin American Club. The rain was falling outside and collecting in tiny droplets on the windows, foggy from the warmth of stickysweetpulsing life inside. While we indulged in a couple rounds of the most potent margaritas this side of the border, I … Continue reading
Full disclosure. I would like to tell you my Tiger Woods story. It’s timely and juicy and good, I promise. But here’s the hitch, it’s not entirely Happelsauce worthy. I mean, this is a food blog, not The Superficial. I figure that I need a good recipe to accompany my true Tiger tale, so recently … Continue reading
The first time I tried a kale chip was at the Park Slope Food Coop. Love at first bite. Undoubtedly. They were called Quite Cheesey Kale Chips but were vegan and raw. Quite the contradiction. I guess the cheesy flavor comes from the nutritional yeast that generously coats each dehydrated piece of kale. They were … Continue reading
