Monday, September 27, 2004

The Goose Way path as instruction

What do Animal Farm, Watership Down and The Handmaid's Tale have in common? They were all, most likely, devoured by John Barlow British author of Eating Mammals. In his new collection of 3 novella's Barlow uses a Wives Tale strategy to instruct through motif the ways of man in crafting his complex relationship to animals.

Sometimes political, at other times with child-like wonder Barlow

Thursday, September 23, 2004

Martha Stewart Chili Pot Pie




We created this vegan pie after Martha's take on Joseph Bonanno Jr's False Alarm Vegetable Chili, just because Martha always keeps her "t".

Ingredients

1 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/2 medium onion, coarsely chopped
1/2 green bell pepper, seeded and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1/2 red bell pepper, seeded and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1 medium carrot cut into chunks
1 jalapeƱo pepper, seeded and

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Southern Blogs


Detail from: To Have and Have Not by Christopher M. Still


...are back. Thanks to Adam at A Single Southern Guy In America we who blog in the warm, sunny and sometimes tempestuous south have a soap box once more.

To celebrate the occasion we're reprising this most antebellum of desserts the
Magnolia Pie

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups unbleached cane sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup soy

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Southern Food Blogs, southern comfort



Those of us that live under the eternal warmth and comfort of the southern sun have few concerns beyond this, we live surrounded by the sea and endure her occasional petulance.

Six hours to landfall and Ivan rages toward the coast. The third major hurricane this season now threatens the "catcher's mitt" from New Orleans to Tallahassee. Two hundred miles west, out in the Gulf, Ivan kicks up

Saturday, September 11, 2004

Hurricane Cinnamon Buns



Looking at these satellite images of swirled cloud masses for a solid month now we have finally yielded to subliminal suggestion and storm fatigue.

The result, The Green Cutting Board's version of cinnamon buns; "Hurricane Twists" and coffee over the morning news.

Ingredients

1 tin of Pillsbury's original crescent rolls
1/2 cup walnuts roughly chopped
1/4 cup vegan spread
1/3 cup brown