A new spin on an old classic — grilled cheese and tomato soup. This tomato soup is spicy, creamy and full of Thai flavors (ginger, red curry, coconut milk). Perfect for any time of year. This would make a super easy weeknight meal — the soup itself can be ready in about 20 or so minutes and […]
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Reader Poll: New E-Book Topic?
Happy Friday to you all! Things have been crazy busy here. This week is — no, was — spring break, and I had envisioned getting caught up on things that fell to the wayside during the last weeks of teaching last quarter and then having some time to relax and, you know, have a break. […]
Cream of Broccoli Soup
A while back, a Serenity in the Storm reader wrote in to request an easy and quick cream of broccoli soup. I’ve been thinking about this recipe for a while and wanted to make something that had a really simple ingredients list and that didn’t use any substitutions (e.g., vegan cream, sour cream, etc.). I was surprised […]
Signs of Spring
It’s definitely feeling like spring here in Seattle. The crocuses are blooming all over the place. They’re so cheerful and pretty. And the daffodils (the little tiny ones) are just starting to bloom. The rhubarb in our garden is sprouting. It looks so weird and wrinkly as it unfolds. We have this lone little anemone blooming […]
February
Holy smokes. It’s been an entire month since my last post. February was a rough month over here. I won’t bore you with all the details, but we had quite a scare with Maizy — the vets thought she had lymphoma and I was back and forth to a range of specialists with her for ultrasounds, […]
En Vogue: From Feathers to Leather
This quarter, I’m teaching a class at University of Washington called ‘En Vogue: From Feathers to Leather’ about human and nonhuman animals in fashion. So far, we have spent the first four weeks focused on theoretical framing for the course and the human costs of the fashion industry, reading and watching documentaries about sweatshop labor, […]
Perpetual Mourning
Earlier this week, I witnessed a pigeon get run over by a car. Eric and I were in the car on our way to get some dinner and we noticed a pigeon in the middle of the street, wings flapping, struggling to right herself, clearly injured. In one instant, we took in the scene — […]
Review of ‘Bleating Hearts’ at The Kind Life
Good morning! Today I have a book review of Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering by Mark Hawthorne up at Alicia Silverstone’s site, The Kind Life. I hope you’ll hop on over there to read it. This book is extraordinary. Even as a committed animal advocate, I learned so much from it and […]
Jalapeño Poppers
I have to confess that Eric and I watched the Seahawks/49ers football game yesterday. This is so wholly out of character for us, and we kept commenting on how we should turn on a movie, but we were transfixed and just kept on watching. At one point, I found myself jumping up off the couch, saying […]
Roasted Radishes
Does anyone reading remember the television program Faerie Tale Theatre with Shelley Duvall from the mid-1980s? They did these amazing performances of popular fairy tales. Rapunzel was one of my favorites and I have this vivid of memory of the beginning of that episode where Rapunzel’s mother, while pregnant with her, has this intense craving […]
