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YOU’RE INVITED: A NEW YEARS DAY PARTY PLAN B (AS IN BLACK-EYED PEAS)

YOU’RE INVITED: A NEW YEARS DAY PARTY PLAN B (AS IN BLACK-EYED PEAS)

By Crescent Dragonwagon Leave a Comment

In the years since I have been an adult, I have hosted a New Year’s Day open house, in the late afternoon on the first day of the new year, probably once every three or four years. What I served at the first one, back when I was nineteen and had just moved to the small Ozarks boho Victorian arts… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon, Deep Feast, recipes Tagged With: black-eyed peas, New Years

MY FABULOUS GREEN TOMATO (MEATLESS) MINCEMEAT

MY FABULOUS GREEN TOMATO (MEATLESS) MINCEMEAT

By Crescent Dragonwagon 2 Comments

MAKE IT NOW, WHILE THE FARMER’S MARKET (OR YOUR OWN GARDEN) IS PROBABLY OVERFLOWING WITH GREEN TOMATOES. ENJOY IT ALL YEAR LONG — STARTING BUT BY NO MEANS ENDING WITH THANKSGIVING. A sweet-savory-spicy combination of fresh and dried fruits and vegetables into a dark, mysterious, delectable conserve. Perfect for pies, but you won't stop there!   What should you do… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon, Deep Feast Tagged With: Crescent Dragonwagon recipe, green tomato mincemeat, mincemeat, Thanksgiving, vegan, vegetarian

COMFORT ME WITH APPLES… BUT MAKE THEM *BAKED* APPLES, PLEASE.

COMFORT ME WITH APPLES… BUT MAKE THEM *BAKED* APPLES, PLEASE.

By Crescent Dragonwagon 11 Comments

THEY COULDN’T LOOK MORE UNPREPOSSESSING. AND THEY COULDN’T BE EASIER. AND THEY COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE MORE DELICIOUS, OR MORE PERFECT FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. MEET MY MOTHER’S BAKED APPLES. AND, IF YOU HAVE SOMEONE AT YOUR THANKSGIVING TABLE WHO IS GLUTEN- OR GRAIN-FREE, OR AVOIDING ADDED SUGAR, OR VEGAN, BUT YOU STILL WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon, Deep Feast, recipes Tagged With: apple recipes, apple varieties, Baked Apples, fall food, How to Make Baked Apples, what is a baking apple, what is a cooking apple

I FEED THIS GUINNESS STOUT CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE TO MY FATHER ONLY IN MY DREAMS

I FEED THIS GUINNESS STOUT CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE TO MY FATHER ONLY IN MY DREAMS

By Crescent Dragonwagon 15 Comments

IT’S ALMOST ST. PATRICK’S DAY, SO IT IS TIME FOR ME, AGAIN, TO OFFER YOU THIS GUINNESS STOUT CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE. IF YOU’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR AN IRISH-ISH DESSERT THAT IS A KNOCK-YOUR-SOCKS-OFF WOW, THIS MAY IS IT. IT IS (SHE SAID MODESTLY), ONE OF THE THREE BEST CHOCOLATE DESSERTS I EVER CAME UP WITH, IN A LIFETIME OF DEVELOPING… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon, Deep Feast, Maurice Zolotow, recipes, self-understanding, personal growth Tagged With: Arkansas, chocolate cake, Dairy Hollow House, death, Eureka Springs, fathers and daughters, Fionulla Flanagan, Guinness Stout Chocolate Cake, Irish dessert, Marilyn Monroe, St Patrick's Day dessert, St. Patrick's Day, sudden death

IMPEACH UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

IMPEACH UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

By Crescent Dragonwagon 7 Comments

Given the day (February 10, 2021), and all we were in the middle of, it was always going to be something. Cobbler? Crisp? Pie? No! It was an IMPEACH UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE! To dessert-lovers, a good cake has no down side. Unless, of course, it happens to be an upside-down cake. (Go directly to recipe here.) To those of us who love making… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon, Deep Feast Tagged With: baking, baking from scratch, upside-down cake

PERFECT HEIGHT-OF-SUMMER VEGETABLE RECIPES THE-TIME-IS-JUST-RIGHT-FOR: PANDEMIC PANTRY PLEASURES

PERFECT HEIGHT-OF-SUMMER VEGETABLE RECIPES THE-TIME-IS-JUST-RIGHT-FOR: PANDEMIC PANTRY PLEASURES

By Crescent Dragonwagon Leave a Comment

— a pandemic pantry post — 8 WAYS TO DELIGHT IN SUMMER & FALL’S FRUITS AND VEGETABLES; YES, EVEN (ESPECIALLY) NOW I have been thinking a lot this year about something Annie Dillard wrote: “How we live our days is how we live our lives.” For reasons you know as well as I do, these, the days of 2020, have… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon, #pandemicpantry, Deep Feast, recipes, self-understanding, personal growth Tagged With: best way to cook okra, cooking, culinary writing, eating locally, fallfood, gardening, green tomato mincemeat, okra, summerfood, upside-down cake, vegetarian, winter squash

OVEN-BAKED POLENTA (RECIPE ONLY)

OVEN-BAKED POLENTA (RECIPE ONLY)

By Crescent Dragonwagon 1 Comment

To learn the whole story on this revolutionary method of cooking Oven-baked Polenta, go here. If you just want the recipe, you’re in the right place. Ingredients: spray oil, or butter, vegan butter, or olive oil, for greasing pan (plus optional addition later) 4 to 5 1/2 cups water (less water gives you a thicker finished polenta, more a thinner;… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon, #pandemicpantry, recipes Tagged With: cupboard, grits, oven-baked polenta, pantry, polenta

12 PERFECT BEAN RECIPES THE-TIME-IS-JUST-RIGHT-FOR: PANDEMIC PANTRY PLEASURES

12 PERFECT BEAN RECIPES THE-TIME-IS-JUST-RIGHT-FOR: PANDEMIC PANTRY PLEASURES

By Crescent Dragonwagon 4 Comments

— a pandemic pantry post — “BEANS,”  SAID A NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER, IN A RECENT TWEET, “ARE HAVING A MOMENT. “ SHE THEN ADDED, “… FOR HORRIBLE REASONS.” THOSE REASONS, OF COURSE, ARE THE CORONAVIRUS, WHICH HAS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF US THINKING ABOUT HOW TO STOCK PANDEMIC-PROOF PANTRIES…AND WHAT TO DO WITH THE INGREDIENTS WE’VE STOCKED. I BRING… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon, Deep Feast Tagged With: beans, black-eyed peas, cooking with beans, cooking with dried beans, dried bean recipes, lentil soup, lentils, Mjeddrah, pandemic pantry, Tanzanian Black-Eyed Pea Soup with Coconut and Bananas, veggie burgers

TANZANIAN BLACK-EYED PEA & COCONUT SOUP WITH BANANAS

TANZANIAN BLACK-EYED PEA & COCONUT SOUP WITH BANANAS

By Crescent Dragonwagon 1 Comment

Spicy-hot, featuring dimensional multiple layers of flavor, this creamy coconut milk-enriched potage will almost certainly join your family’s list of regularly repeated favorites (unless your family numbers a majority of straight salt-and-pepper only, meat-and-potatoes eater with no tolerance for envelope-pushing). Even with reduced-fat coconut milk, its richness comes through clearly, mitigating and blending the spices and peppers. I’ll admit that… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon, #pandemicpantry, recipes Tagged With: black-eyed peas, black-eyes, curry, main-dish soups, Tanzanian, vegan. vegetarian

SPICY-SMOKY EAST-WEST BLACK-EYED PEAS

SPICY-SMOKY EAST-WEST BLACK-EYED PEAS

By Crescent Dragonwagon 1 Comment

Because I am vegetarian, these black-eyes, untraditionally, don’t have ham or bacon in them. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t recall fondly the smoky savor and fatty richness that these ingredients add to such beans; so, I just set out to find a non-animal way to get there. What makes these smoky? A mixture of chipotle peppers and toasted… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon, #pandemicpantry, recipes Tagged With: beans, black-eyed peas, black-eyes

EVELYN CROSS’S VERY SPECIAL LONG-AGO CARROT CAKE

EVELYN CROSS’S VERY SPECIAL LONG-AGO CARROT CAKE

By Crescent Dragonwagon Leave a Comment

RECIPE ONLY Moist, tender, sweet (honey-sweetened, with a little molasses, no sugar), and rich, spiced but not overly so, this is best traditional-styled carrot cake I have ever tasted. I never order carrot cake no matter how good the bakery or restaurant, because I know it won’t be as delish as this one. Thank you, Evelyn Cross… who gave me… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon, recipes Tagged With: carrot cake, desserts

IRISH POTATO-CHEESE SOUP WITH RED ALE, VEGAN

IRISH POTATO-CHEESE SOUP WITH RED ALE, VEGAN

By Crescent Dragonwagon 1 Comment

Here’s the recipe for my vegan version of this luscious Irish soup, perfect for St. Patrick’s Day. And here’s the full story — in which you’ll learn a lot about its ingredients, and a smattering of Irish history. RECIPE NOTE: This is very adaptable. You may use all leeks or all onions instead of a combination of the two; the… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon Tagged With: St. Patrick's Day, vegan, vegan Irish potato-cheese soup

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Read Aloud with Crescent and Mark

NOT A LITTLE MONKEY, by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrted by Michelle Chessaree

"So, the little girl climbed into the big waste-basket and waited." ' Oh no,' said her mother, ' we don't want to throw you away.'"There are many ways to express love and the need for attention. Here, a busy mother and her just-a-bit naughty little girl tease each other affectionately — the little girl making her point without even uttering a word.That's today's story time — read aloud by the author's daughter at Crescent Dragonwagon's Writing, Cooking, & Workshops, with Mark Graff's "text support" and discussion."Just right for two-to-fours, the humor of this true-to-life story of a mischievous little girl who blocks her mother's attempts to clean house will elicit giggles from the lollipop set." Kirkus Reviews

Posted by Crescent Dragonwagon's Writing, Cooking, & Workshops on Thursday, June 4, 2020

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Read Aloud with Crescent

The Washington Post on Crescent’s Lentil Soup Recipe

The Washington Post on Crescent’s Lentil Soup Recipe

Greek Lentil Soup with Spinach and Lemon, photograph by Tom McCorkle, Washington Post

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