Maiden Voyage

paper lantern

my electrical hazard sunbeam has officially been retired, as much as it treated me well, and my mother before me. i have a new beefcake blender-beau.

I finally took my new blender for a spin last week. I made a whatever’s-in-the-fridge smoothie, and it was delicious. I’m not sure of actual measurements, but the approximations below should yield a pretty good snack or breakfast.

Fruit and Cheese

I’ve been eating a lot of fruit and cheese lately.  Primarily star fruit and manchego, or pears and anything.  Coming home from work and making a giant fruit/cheese/crackers plate means I’m not making dinner as often as I should.  I did, after all, recently buy a tiny slow cooker, so the fruit & cheese dinner habit is making me feel a little guilty.  This much cheese can’t be good for a person.

White Tomato

I told my friend R that

My First {Cherry Pitter, Green Monster}

PB & 2CJ

White Beets & Walnut Paste

Recent Food Files

native sugar toast (sourdough toast with “indian sugar”);
coffee with beloved sumo faces

Local Eggs

Snacking on Poison?

i don’t make it to brookline very often (i hate taking the bus, particularly the 66), but i get my hair cut in coolidge corner, so i stop through there every other month or so. invariably, i end up picking up a few things (as many as i can carry, really) at trader joe’s on my way home: grape tomatoes, avocados, arugula if it looks good (they carry a different variety than most stores), juice, bread, clif bars, wine, frozen fruit and dumplings, and some combination of dried fruits and nuts.

i thrive on newness… i’m happiest when i’m experiencing a new culture, photographing a scene i’ve never seen (those words suck together – sorry), or trying a new food. so, this post marks the beginning of a category of posts that i’m calling (for now) TRYING (edit: i’ve since changed this to ‘Discoveries’). it was in the dried fruit and nut aisle that we find our latest candidate: apricot kernels.