Music to cook by. 4 September 2010 1:45 am
Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,cooking,eugene,friends,fun,Morning Glory,nyc,oregon,random,silly,vegan,vegetarian,writing , add a commentThis post is for the fabulous Chiara, who did one of those silly Facebook (I almost wrote LiveJournal) equivalents of a chain letter where you’re supposed to write down 15 albums in 15 minutes, albums that will stick with you forever, etc. As I started to respond, I arbitrarily tried to restrict myself to no more than one album by any given artist, or I would have gotten to Bowie and used up like six albums right there, and likewise with TMBG and Dar and Dan Bern… you get the idea. Also as I was writing I realized I was thinking in particular about music that is good to cook by, and also that it was making me want to write a TracyFood post on that subject for the first time in—urgh, I’m not even going to look. The point is: here is a list of albums which I have found kept me particularly excellent company in kitchens over the years, annotated where I wanted. Also, Chiara is awesome. (more…)
Recipe: French Toast Waffles. 2 September 2009 7:51 pm
Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,cooking,dessert,friends,kitchen gear,Morning Glory,pictures,recipes,vegetarian , 6 commentsSo Morning Glory ran French toast waffles as a special back in March 2008, but I didn’t make them at home until last month, and I’m not sure Peter has forgiven my holding out on him for so long. That’s the bad news. The good news is, now the cat is out of the bag, and since this breakfasty treat combines great features of two favorites, I think we’ll be eating it a lot from now on. Behold:
French toast waffles.
I mean, you’ve got to admit those are pretty gorgeous. (more…)
Saying goodbye to Eugene. 25 August 2009 7:08 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,CSA,eating,eggs,eugene,events,fangirl,friends,fun,garden,good news,local food,meat,Morning Glory,news,not even vegetarian,nyc,oregon,seasonality,summer,writing , 2 commentsI wrote this piece for an assignment on personal essays and memoir in my food writing class last fall, and it isn’t exactly true anymore — I have had a few more last Saturdays in Eugene since the one described here. It’s still emotionally true, perhaps more so than ever now, and it’s appropriate, since Peter is saying goodbye to Eugene this morning and coming home to New York City, at last, with his shield, not on it. Congratulations, love. See you soon.
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My last Saturday in Eugene, Oregon was pretty well perfect, thanks to a chance encounter with some carrot greens. I spotted them in the totebags of a pedestrian on the bike path south of the Lane County fairgrounds. She was on her way home from Saturday Market; Peter and I were riding our tandem to coffee after a morning of blueberry picking with Kevin and Laurel. It was August second, and thanks to those greens, I remembered it was our last chance to go to Saturday Market before our move. So after coffee, pastries, and a stumper of a New York Times crossword puzzle, we said goodbye to Kevin and Laurel. They rode south, and Peter and I went north, to our last Saturday Market for a long time. (more…)
Ask TracyFood: about those mitts. 2 April 2009 2:56 pm
Posted by Tracy in : friends,kitchen gear,Morning Glory,pictures , add a commentAfter I posted the pictures of my sad oven mitts to Flickr,
my Sugar Momma posted a comment:
Poor sad mittuns. What have you been doing to them?
Good question, Christine! (more…)
Recipe: Coconut-banana buttermilk pancakes 8 January 2009 12:39 pm
Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,cooking,Morning Glory,pictures,vegetarian , 5 comments
These pancakes are dressed up like a breakfast special we ran at Morning Glory back in late March, early April last year. (Hilariously enough, in that post I also wrote that I felt like I’d entered the Nepal photo captioning homestretch. Good thing it was April Fools’ Day, I guess.) My recipe is based on “Light and Fluffy Pancakes” from The New Best Recipe
Good cat. Anyway, on with the recipe. (more…)
