Recipe Log

The weather here in New England has been a bit indecisive over the last month. Some days have been decidedly in the summer column. Others make me hesitate to pack away the coats and sweaters even though we’re now halfway through June....

At last, I feel like I’ve really settled back into a groove in the kitchen. My patience was rewarded, at least with respect to asparagus. I usually think of it as an early-spring vegetable....

In my obliviousness, I completely missed the fact daylight saving time returned a few weeks ago. What a difference that makes. Both because it’s nice the sun doesn’t set at 5 PM, and also as it means I have more potential for getting lots of natural light for photos when I’m throwing together dinner in the evenings....

With painful slowness, my kitchen is coming together at last. My architects and I brought in a new crew to deal with the points of finesse the previous contractor couldn’t quite get right....

Despite my kitchen still (!) not quite being done, I feel like I’m beginning to get my groove back. I spent the second half of January meandering around Europe in Spain, the Netherlands, and France, which provided some interesting perspectives that were really inspiring....

I’m attempting to reset the monthly updates to the usual mid-month release cycle. The jucier content from my jaunt abroad will have to wait for the next installment. Though amazingly my kitchen still isn’t done....

I had really hoped that this time I’d be able to write that my kitchen project had finally wrapped up. Alas, it was not to be. While I can cook again, there are a few troublesome details getting in the way of me completely unpacking and getting back to my usual rhythms....

My kitchen is still not quite done. I think there’s at least another week of work for the crew to do, optimistically. But we have achieved an important milestone: I can cook again....

For a variety of reasons, this is late by a couple of weeks. Unfortunately this was not because my new kitchen was so close to completion, waiting another week would make the difference....

At this point, it should surprise no one that the kitchen (still) isn’t done. It feels tantalizingly close, yet remains elusive. In the last week, nothing happened on site. Which is not necessarily to say that nothing has happened at all....