A Home Cook's Journal of Tastes & Morsels
notes on nostalgia: longing for the flavor of Past (becoming that for a moment) round table against a wooden wall + birds chirping at the feed across the way -lively chatter before snack time- and so, it exists [in the present] experience frames set to the color: w i s t f u l pretzels…
current mood: clean laundry splayed on floor, unfolded. bakingcadbury eggschocolate chip cookiesCookiesdeliciouseasterfoodfoodieMinneapolisom nom nomrecipeSpringsweetsyum
Ahem. “Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased…
Melt. And release. A ball of clementine dough. Rolled atop parchment, it meets heat and spreads into what is next. It becomes, and we start to see the rest as contrast -tightening so that we know what it might be like to let go- because maybe the intent and the impact can be irrelevant, even…
Apparently A monster can be defined as, “an imaginary creature that is typically large, ugly, and frightening.” (Google) Except. We do not imagine them. They are not monumentally creatures. They are not always large and ugly. They are the things we do not want to face. This is why we are afraid. Apparently these cookies…
There’s a word we all say weird. Or, rather, we do not say it in unison. “cahr-muhl.” “cär-uh-mehl.” or, as my mother calls it, “cär-uh-muhl.” This is fine. We do not have to be doing everything at the same time. I recently admitted to myself that I am very tired, and it was big [the…
How to try and mend a heart (part two). I don’t know. There are no answers. It’s going to pump blood and ache or not ache or not ache and then ache again and then not ache for as long as it wants to. For as long as it can. For as long as it’s…
