Category Archives: carnivore

24 September 2012

How To Make Green Chili? Beer. Braised. Butt.

It took a village to make this green chili. Almost literally. I believe no less than five people were involved in the making of this chili. Which was unnecessary, but decidedly more fun. Not surprisingly, cooking with friends is more fun that cooking alone. And cooking with friends who will help you make a roux […]

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05 September 2012

Simply Seared Tuna

Sometimes simpler really is better. While I feel tons better and mostly like a normal person again, I still get tired very easily. Meal-planning is not my strong suit when I’m at the peak of health, much less when I’m wiped out and having to play by the rules of a small list of foods. […]

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11 August 2012

Struggling With The New Diet

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over—like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? —Langston Hughes I’ve started dreaming […]

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05 August 2012

I Am What I Eat: The Last Meal

It’s fitting that on the eve of my surgery I found this gorgeous web-TV series called I AM WHAT I EAT. Fitting because the first episode is titled The Last Meal and after tomorrow I will be on a very limited diet of mostly liquids for the next six weeks. Fitting because I have spent […]

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29 July 2012

The Last Supper

What is your most favorite meal of all time? Is there a go-to dish you can’t live without? One that you could eat every day? A delicious food that, if given the choice, would be your last meal? I have no idea what mine would be. I’ll be having surgery on my esophagus in just […]

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17 July 2012

Need Food Fast? You Need Chicken!

I eat a lot of chicken. I love chicken.  I have some chickens but I don’t eat those chickens. Chicken is so easy, so light, so protein-packed. Chicken lends itself to being fried, baked, poached, roasted, blah blah blah. We all have our standbys, those items that we turn to night after night because we […]

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12 July 2012

Exotic States Make Beautiful Meals Together

Meat wasn’t the only thing I ate in Hawaii. Fresh fish—like the fresh fruit I didn’t eat as much of as I should have—abounds, making it easy to access never-frozen cuts of tuna or ono that are literally straight off the boat. To fill my taste-buds’ desire to go back to that pescetarian paradise, I […]

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31 May 2012

Chicken Soup, Tokyo Style

After the last post about eggs, several of you emailed me to say that you too, A) love eggs, and B) would love to find other new ways to prepare them. So it’s just perfect timing that not only was I craving chicken noodle soup, but that the only noodles I had in the house […]

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22 May 2012

The Simple Pleasure of a Simple Dinner

Sometimes there is nothing so pleasing as a simply prepared dinner and there’s just something about a steak dinner that makes you feel like you’re celebrating something—even if that something is Tuesday! Flank steak is a very lean red meat option and it lends itself well to braising or grilling. When I have the foresight, […]

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17 May 2012

Poached Eggs + Baked Risotto = YUM

My most recent obsession is finding new ways (or at least new-to-me ways) of preparing and eating eggs. Eggs—a protein which once seemed so simple—have now become a medium to experiment with. If you didn’t already know, for the past few years I’ve been helping a friend keep chickens. Now that I regularly eat farm […]

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