Monthly Archives: June 2009

What to cook when there's nothing to eat

By Vanessa | Published: June 19, 2009
One of my favorite MFK Fisher books is How to Cook a Wolf. The wolf, of course, is hunger. The point being that a resourceful cook is one who can find something to eat when the larder is empty and the wolf is at the door. I cooked my own wolf the other night. True [...]
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Plum-Verbena Jam

By Vanessa | Published: June 7, 2009
In a way, this jam is what started me on the road to writing this latest book. It happened last summer when I noticed a family member's plum tree was laden with fruit–pounds and pounds of delicious plums about to go to waste in the worst way possible, by rotting on the ground. We harvested [...]
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Homemade Buckwheat Pasta with Cabbage, Bacon, Brown Butter, and Sage

By Vanessa | Published: June 1, 2009
You wouldn't know it was June from what we've been eating around here. It's cold in the Bay Area this week. Creepily so. So Sunday night I figured why not test a recipe from the book that fits the "season"? Sorry about the heinous picture in bad light but I wanted to get down to [...]
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