I have never had some kind of life-changing epiphany about food or life while eating some special bite of something, some mind-blowing morsel that made me quit my job or move across country. Perhaps this means they will never make a movie about this blog– thank goodness. I think we have enough emotional eating happening on every commercial break, so I wont bore you with that here. I am trying to make this blog both useful (to those who want to cook– and some of you have been following and cooking what I post– which is awesome!), as well as a place I can explore what food means in terms of where flavors come from, how they meet up with other flavors, and how cooking is…
Posts tagged “south texas”
When I was working my first job as a cook, we used to whip up a wild rice salad with an orange juice vinaigrette for all the summer weddings. I worked at a small restaurant on Cape Cod, but on the catering side of the kitchen– the real bread and butter of the operation. I thought I would be a waitress that summer, but I was too late arriving to the Cape for those jobs. A friend of a friend who waited tables at this place knew they needed a cook, so she lied and told them I was the best cook she knew (maybe I was– but I had never cooked for her). Luckily I knew my way around a kitchen enough to…
Categories: recipes, vegetarian
Tagged: cooking, dandelions, figs, pecans, recipe, rice, salad, south texas
