It has been a while, little blog. I've missed you. So much has happened since my last post: I hosted some fantastic but sadly undocumented dinner parties for visiting scholars; I finally finished my book manuscript after a three year struggle; I landed a gig teaching French to opera singers in Périgueux, Dordogne region (yay, France!), this summer –– so expect to see some French food posts in July; I made a huge batch of loquat jam from the tree in our yard; Chris and I will be moving, menagerie in tow, from East to North Austin in three weeks' time; my mother gave me some fantastic cookbooks for Christmas, including dreamy Mourad Lahlou's
New Moroccan and the classic Spanish cookbook,
1080 Recipes, by Simone and Inés Ortega, described by some as Spain's
Joy of Cooking.
The bright-fragrant-dreamy triptych represents my newest food obsessions, although of course all of my abiding fixations (curries, chutnies, salsas, sweet/savory pairings) continue to inform my cooking.
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| Bright |
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| Fragrant |
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| Dreamy |
Doesn't Mourad Lahlou look just cuddly? He's so cuddly he can't help but cuddle himself in this photo.
