http://parsnipsaplenty.com supporting your love of vegetables since 2008. Early 2008. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:13:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We displaced Southerners are picky when it comes to restaurants claiming to serve down home food. We have grown to expect tasteless grits, chewy biscuits, and unsweetened iced tea when we leave the red clay states, and we groan at the very mention of "nouvelle Southern" in association with ... http://parsnipsaplenty.com/2009/06/20/review-screen-door-brunch/ Shortbread, short entry. This is an infinitely adaptable basic recipe: one part sugar, two parts butter, three parts flour (by weight). Because it's so simple, you should bring out the good butter for this. Or the good... coconut oil? Coconut Lime Shortbread makes about 20 cookies 2 cups all purpose flour 1/4 ... http://parsnipsaplenty.com/2009/06/15/coconut-lime-shortbread/ I have an announcement. Are you sitting down? The sun has been shining in Portland for 10 straight days. It's been amazing. I was lolling on the grass one sunny day in college, Back East, and my friend Natalie, who grew up here in Portland, turned to me and said, "I'm from ... http://parsnipsaplenty.com/2009/05/31/peanut-ginger-sesame-cookies/ It's 7:00 on a Saturday evening. I had plans - I was going to go contra dancing, twirling and stomping and grinning for three hours. But they have been thwarted by sunshine. I was worried that this would happen when I decided that I would spend the afternoon lazing ... http://parsnipsaplenty.com/2009/05/23/picnic-with-basil/ I have decided that in order to appreciate spring, you've got to live someplace with a real winter. I remember reading food magazines in Marches and Aprils years ago and wondering if the only vegetarian recipes they'd ever offer in springtime would be baby vegetable sautés. Tiny carrots, ... http://parsnipsaplenty.com/2009/05/13/fiddlehead-quiche/ I'm so glad my friend Zeke has started taking French lessons on the weekends, because the language school is a few blocks from my house, and it gives him an excuse to come over on Saturday mornings. Zeke is wonderful at encouraging me to dig in the back of ... http://parsnipsaplenty.com/2009/04/18/lemon-rose-pancakes-with-cardamom-syrup/ I left the country for the first time when I was 16, on a three-week school trip to Paris. I haven't much looked back. Five continents visited, three foreign countries lived in, four languages studied, and I'm starting to wonder if I'll never feel well-rounded or satisfactorily traveled. The ... http://parsnipsaplenty.com/2009/04/09/risotto-cakes/ I travel light. After doing the requisite college European backpacking trip with a giant black pack that necessitated very few stops for laundry but a grumble every time I tried to lift it, I came home and stuffed the cumbersome luggage into the bowels of my parents' basement, never ... http://parsnipsaplenty.com/2009/03/27/spiced-fried-apples-with-apricot-butter/ What do you do when skies are gray and the days aren't yet long enough? You open the freezer to find the sour cherries you picked and put away last summer! And then you make a cake. I made this last February, when a bunch of other volunteers crammed into my ... http://parsnipsaplenty.com/2009/02/05/chocolate-cherry-upside-down-cake/ I grew up in a wonderful progressive community in southern Appalachia, where vegetarianism was never a confusing concept. I don't remember ever learning about tofu - it was something people ate, and the bean curd patty was never a revelation for me. Any sense of "you mean you ... http://parsnipsaplenty.com/2009/01/15/kale-potato-soup-with-balsamic-roasted-garlic/