Food From a Hungry Ghost

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  • Project Notes – 2.16

    My current project is a pie based on hot chocolate someone had in Northern Virginia. Chocolate, cardamom, orange, and cinnamon combined and topped with whipped cream and star anise. As a point of reference I’m going to start here. That cardamom chocolate chess filling looks remarkably close to what I’m trying to achieve, so in

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  • All that I touch, all that I see…

    All that I touch, all that I see…

    Valentine’s day’s stream of thoughts, clock-wise: Notes for strawberry chocolate pie, A tiny ‘zilla from the Liz, Challah cross-section, I am missing the Liz, Tiny chocolate hearts, Delivery in Ashland.

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  • Humble (chocolate) Pie Crust

    Last month’s project was a chocolate pie dough. the purpose, of course, was to serve as the base for my Valentine’s day pie which I’m selling now through pre-orders. I didn’t know what flavor the pie would be back in January – just that the dough was going to be chocolate. In a perfect world

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  • Project Notes – 10.17

    Pie Beans – Weights for the Crust 3 Sisters Pizza Rustica Tonight I worked on one of my menu’s savory options: the Three Sisters Pizza Rustica. An herbed ricotta custard topped with winter squash, green beans, and charred corn. It’s in an organic spelt crust which tastes amazing but bakes incredibly dark. I’m concerned that

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  • I must remember

    this is a state of torpor. Algae and mold cover curtains and blinds: beings born of dust and neglect. I have lived here for many, many years. I must remember to care, I must not forget to notice because attention is a form of love.

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  • Fine Dining

    This is all just a practice. A menu based on tonight’s dinner. I’m always wishing I had the job of writing my own menus. Of presenting food I’ve made to droves of hungry gatherers. Of knowing every dimension of what satisfaction really means: how it reads, how it tastes, how it feels. So I’m writing

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  • Shell

    I have been going through a consumer panic for the PS5, lately. I have a perfectly functional PS4 that I use to play games on the same TV I’ve had since before owning a PS3. I have no idea where this impulse is coming from. I don’t need the game system. I cannot justify prioritizing

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  • Blue Ink

    “Work is done, then forgotten.Therefore it lasts forever.” Tao Te Ching, Tao 2 None of this works when it’s a performance. Faith is only as real as it is secret. Breathe [Pink Floyd] directly into Hey [Pixies] I’m never sure what I want to bake. Lately I’ve been losing the will to do it. I’ll

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