Category: Stories
Prompt 3
Here is my third foray with the writing exercise prompts from Bite by Bite and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Spice is nice: What is your favorite spice? Coriander? Cardamom? Cumin? Look up the healing properties and/or folklore of that spice and create a scene where a character uses that spice to heal someone. Well, this is certainly different.…
Prompt 2
I’m continuing with a writing exercise prompted by Bite by Bite and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Prompt 2: Taste the rainbow: write a poem or lyric essay in seven segments, with each segment of the piece representing a food color of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. What is the food rainbow of my…
Prompt 1
I’m challenging myself. I am going to try my hand at writing responses to the prompts Aimee Nezhukumatathil includes in the back of Bite by Bite.
Pine Nut Tassies
Another recipe from a 2003 Gourmet magazine. Instead of an appetizer, I decided to make something sweet—Pine Nut Tassies.
Spiced Nuts
I found so many worthy recipes in the December 2003 vintage Gourmet that it was hard to know where to start backing.
Almost Vintage Holidays continued…on to December!
If you recall, dear reader, I am embarking on a holiday theme entitled “Almost Vintage.” I’m scouring through my hoarded Gourmet and Martha Stewart Living magazines from the 90s, 00s and through 2022 (when MSL ceased publication). It’s been a stroll down memory lane for sure. It’s on to the December issues now. I first…
Thanksgiving Appetizers (or the Relish Tray)
For the next three posts, I’m highlighting some “relish tray” appetizers from MSL November 2021.
The Holidays (vintage style)
My new goal is to do another holiday theme for November and December. It’s been a while….
What in the world?
The photo is the blog’s namesake: Eliot (RIP). I’ve been going down memory lane lately. I hate the way my old posts from ten plus years ago sound. This title, however, sounds like a post from 2012. This is a long rant and I couldn’t come up with anything else.
Baking Yesteryear by B. Dylan Hollis, a review
I decided to keep going with my reviews of new(ish) cookbooks. Obviously, I’m still rolling through those published in 2023. I’m not sure the featured book today made any “best of” lists, but it should have. I laughed out loud from page one. I love nostalgia and I love retro and I love a good…