Caponata

Caponata is a sicilian dish involving eggplant, onion, garlic, celery, olive, caper, raisins, red sauce, vinegar. It's really good. I've made it replacing the celery with Napa Cabbage. You can also replace the eggplant, I've done it with Orange Cauliflower a few times lately and that is great, too

recent-ish food pics

 This chicken dish is from the cookbook Istanbul and Beyond, super good

 I am in a 3BR place and currently have 2 visiting students from France in the extra bedrooms, Thibault made crepes one night, we had a savory one (ham, onion, red sauce, egg) and then a desert one (butter, hot cocoa mix). Super good.

 turnips

 Simon made this, turnips and watermelon radish from the garden, meyer lemon from tree at home, super good.

Thibault made this, tart with homemade puff pastry, pears, chocolate

sauted fresh favas with olives

and with homemade Emeril hot sauce

we did a franco american mac and cheese dinner

roasted sweet potatoes: garnet yams, molokai purple, served with harissa dipping sauce, I should put the recipe for it on the blog, killer, from Chez Panisse Cafe cookbook

 strawberries, whipped cream, on Tassajara bread book gingerbread

 pizzas at Steph and Erik's new house. I made Einkorn, kamut, whole wheat doughs, 2 pizzas from each. All sorts of toppings from green tomatoes with cheddar, red sauce with standard toppings. Last one was a dessert one with peaches.

Added spelt flour to the mix, so now I have 4 whole grain wheat flours


Not pictured but other recent foods I've enjoyed recently:
Oats with black pepper, turmeric, ginger, cinammon and miso! Generally oat groats. Turmeric is super good for you, and black pepper helps you get all the benefits. The miso and oats idea is from a Heidi Swanson cookbook

fermented polenta (polenta, water, salt, either yogurt whey or sauerkraut brine, let that sit 3 days before you cook it, helps with digesting corn, tastes good

chickpea flour polenta

maccu. sicilian fava bean puree

youtube rabbit hole

kacey musgraves at the royal albert hall
kacey musgraves w/ john prime,
john prine w/ sturgill simpson

kacey musgraves tiny desk concert
jason isbell tiny desk concert
sturgill simpson tiny desk concert
avett brothers tiny desk

garden, May 4, Nikon D600, 105 MF, bees

garden, may 3rd

 it's a lizard

 I wanted this image bad but AF was not happy, gotta come back with a tripod and a MF macro lens

 kind of a trash tree, but pretty flowers. I like that this one violates the rules of photography - your eyes bounce back and forth between the left and right side of the image

bird eatin' loquats

more poppies

new lens

Got a 18-300 6.3 Nikon lens, fantastic little guy. My uncle uses it all the time. Gonna try to take more pics in the garden now.

 coastal CA poppy, epazote

 poppy, garlic, arugula

 fuyu persimmon

arugula, poppy, non-native grass