- Snapshots from visits to Massachusetts this fall & winter
New England: Boston, Cambridge, Newton & Wellesley
Category: Photos
The Netherlands: Amsterdam, Delft and the Hague
I’m about 5 months behind in posting these pictures . . . photographic dispatches from my wondrous trip to the Netherlands this summer.
Throwing Shade(s)
Selfie Sunday
Smile
Pan Seared Pineapple Curry & Split Pea Mash
Last week, I ordered some kind of pineapple/chili dish served with tofu, grilled cashews and steamed vegetables. As I noshed, I wondered: “Why don’t I ever cook with pineapples?” Rectified this gross culinary negligence by whipping this up tonight. The base of the curry is an almond butter sauce I made, along with carrots, garlic, grilled peanuts, almond milk and coconut butter. Seared the pineapple in coconut oil along with red onions. Served over brown rice, red rice & black barley, with a side of split pea mash. Incredibly delicious. Not low fat. At all.
Zora
Because Negro Hair Stands Up
Blue
Tulip Festival
Tulips make me happy.
Have you ever seen anything so perfect? So effortlessly beautiful?
The colors . . . the textures. Have you ever touched a tulip? Caressed its petals? Communed with its spirit?
Wait. Scroll back up. Did you see that yellow? I mean . . . Lord. Have mercy.
To imagine: the Big Bang banged Itself into a tulip. A million tulips. And it also banged Itself into you and me. How awesome is that.
I love how bad-ass tulips are with their beauty. They jut out the earth, crowned in all their glory on some: “Yeah, I’m gorgeous and amazing. What?”
Aware of Awareness 