Verbless VVednesdays

January 30, 2013

Comfort lunch @ Oxbow Market in Napa.

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Verbless VVednesdays

January 23, 2013

Walk-in closet.

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A Cupboard Garden

January 17, 2013

Open the cupboards at my house at your own risk. In the spot where you’d think I’d keep a darling wicker basket of Tupperware, I might have a gurgling batch of jasmine tea kombucha, the slimy ‘mother’ floating at the top of a glass canister in a primordial ooze and mysteriously reproducing like an aquarium […]

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Verbless VVednesdays

January 16, 2013

Cool Caul fat!

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So This Is How You Do Pesto

January 9, 2013

My husband hates pesto. In fact, I believe he may have infected me with his ill-will toward this otherwise pleasing ingredient, because I’m not sure how I feel about pesto anymore either. But that doesn’t stop me from mixing up a gigantic batch of it every year. Pesto was once one of those epiphany foodstuffs […]

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Verbless VVednesdays

January 9, 2013

Sweet dreams, my lovely.  

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New Year’s Eve Bonfire

January 3, 2013

Justin Bieber was on the television, they tell me, along with the Gangnam Style guy and a newly-preggers Kim Kardashian; The Ball dropped in Times Square, fancy diners supped up caviar from mother-of-pearl spoons, and fireworks lit up the sky over Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong. But here at The Muddy Kitchen, it was just […]

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Verbless VVednesdays

January 2, 2013

Guest bedroom. Muddy Kitchen-style.

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Verbless VVednesdays

December 26, 2012

Merry Christmas from far away!

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Roasted Maitake in Lapsang Souchong Tea Broth

December 20, 2012

I tried unsuccessfully to take Michael Natkin’s book Herbivoracious out from the library, so instead I just bit the bullet and bought it. My daughter is a Mac-n-Cheese-and-sometimes-a-little-bacon vegetarian and I thought I might expand her repertoire. In the five months I’ve owned the book though, I’ve only turned to one very brilliant page, which […]

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