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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Procrastination pie: A lesson in avoiding the really hard work

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Little Bird. My most recently completed painting, from September 2014. I got angry at my son yesterday. He was supposed to be practici...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Winter's journey and braised beef shanks

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Virginia in winter is subtly beautiful. Delicate, blackened bone trees. Raw, sweeping curves of hills. A colorbox of strange halftones: ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Snow day chili with beans and a hint of cocoa

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Yesterday it snowed--the first significant snow in a few years here in Northern Virginia. On the tail of the snowstorm came the polar vor...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Lemon sweetie pies, or an exercise in turning a kitchen disaster into pop art

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I know, I know. I am totally off schedule. Right now I should be posting healthy, fresh recipes for getting back into shape for the new y...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Two-potato hash with ham: Fall comfort food

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I try to plan meals. I really do. But I end up improvising dinner far more often than I'd like to admit. And some nights, I have a pl...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Autumn Comfort: Cream of Cauliflower Soup

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I haven't posted in an age. And the longer the time stretches out since that last post, months and months ago, the harder it gets to ...
Friday, February 1, 2013

Reflections on winter and a bowl of beef stew with Guinness and bacon

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Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I ...