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STILL BEANING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

STILL BEANING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

By Crescent Dragonwagon

There’s no doubt of this: New Orleans is a city which knows its beans. So when Camellia Beans, a well-respected and well-loved brand of dry beans based in that municipality approached me about using some of the lima bean recipes from my book Bean by Bean,  of course I gladly said yes. They have just put up the post featuring  three… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon, Deep Feast Tagged With: Bean by Bean, beans, Brunswick Stew, Camellia, Crescent dragonwagon, Ragout of Shiitake Mushrooms Butter Beans & Southern Greens with Potatoes, Southern Country-Style Butter-Bean & Green Bean Soup

BISCUITS AND GRAVY, A SIDE OF OVER EASY: LOVE, BREAKFAST, MEMORY

BISCUITS AND GRAVY, A SIDE OF OVER EASY: LOVE, BREAKFAST, MEMORY

By Crescent Dragonwagon

I’m in New York at the moment, with my boyfriend. I woke up early, suddenly and fully this morning, filled with reasonless happiness. He was asleep, warm beside me. I started thinking about what to make for breakfast. Out of nowhere, in that funny discursive way memory has, biscuits and gravy came to mind. THE SUN KITCHEN I used to… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon Tagged With: biscuits and gravy, breakfast, Crescent dragonwagon, eggs, Eureka Springs, lat life romance, mushrooms

THE WHOLE ENCHILADA: LOOKING BACK ON WINNING, LOSING, & LIFE’S COMBO PLATE

THE WHOLE ENCHILADA: LOOKING BACK ON WINNING, LOSING, & LIFE’S COMBO PLATE

By Crescent Dragonwagon

FOREWORD: I wrote recently here about traveling to the awards ceremony for the International Association of Culinary Professionals,\ with one of the first-time nominees. Our conversation made me recall a post I’d written immediately after I had won an award for one of my books, Passionate Vegetarian, back in 2003. It was a book which had also been nominated for and lost… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon Tagged With: cookbooks, eldercare, Hastings-on-Hudson, IACP, James Beard Award, losing, Ragavan Iyer, rehab, winning the James Beard Award, writing

WHITE CHOCOLATE-PINEAPPLE BREAD PUDDING WITH DARK RUM SAUCE, DONALD TRUMP, & CULINARY LITERACY

WHITE CHOCOLATE-PINEAPPLE BREAD PUDDING WITH DARK RUM SAUCE, DONALD TRUMP, & CULINARY LITERACY

By Crescent Dragonwagon

“Should I just throw these out?” I asked him. I was referring to 15 or 20 leftover muffins: carrot-pineapple-coconut muffins. We were doing that lovely post-party couple-dance of cleaning up, putting the house back to rights, discussing the event we had just co-created. He wrinkled his brow.  The give-me-more-information look. He was drying the glasses, replacing them on the shelf. “”I mean,… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon Tagged With: bread pudding, coconut, dessert, Dragonwagon, pineapple, post-election party, trump

Love, Life & What I Baked: a 130th Birthday Key Lime Pie-Cake

Love, Life & What I Baked: a 130th Birthday Key Lime Pie-Cake

By Crescent Dragonwagon

Last week I was obsessing about birthday cake. One particular birthday cake … a cake worthy of two twins celebrating their shared 65th birthday, which I had tasked myself with making. After all, one twin was my beloved Alpha Male, and the other was his sister, who I’d never met, who was flying all the way in from Washington state to celebrate with… Read More

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THE DILL-SEEKERS: AN HERB, A MOTHER, MEMORY

THE DILL-SEEKERS: AN HERB, A MOTHER, MEMORY

By Crescent Dragonwagon

I’d had friends over last Friday, for dinner. A couple of the dishes I’d served them required a little fresh dill. Now, you can’t buy a little dill. You buy it by the bunch. That bunch is usually, especially this time of year, preposterously large. This is problematical. I live alone, except for when my boyfriend comes up from New York to spend a few… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon Tagged With: aging, aging parents, Charlotte Zolotow, cooking, Crescent dragonwagon, culinary writing, dill, Food and Drink, herbs, mothers and daughters, vinaigrette

PEPPERS, PUDDINGS, & FOOD FOR THE HIGH NOON OF SUMMER: A DINNER PARTY IDYLL

PEPPERS, PUDDINGS, & FOOD FOR THE HIGH NOON OF SUMMER: A DINNER PARTY IDYLL

By Crescent Dragonwagon

High noon, on the year’s clock. That’s what it is right now. I know technically, literally, that summer’s high noon would be the Solstice, towards June’s end. But subjectively, I place it about a month later. That’s when the overflowing, abundant generosity of my local farm-stand makes me swoon with possibilities, and it’s hard not to overbuy. All that produce!… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon Tagged With: cooking, Crescent dragonwagon, dinner parties, Food and Drink, friendship, Recipes, vegetarian

THIS METHOD OF COOKING POLENTA WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE

THIS METHOD OF COOKING POLENTA WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE

By Crescent Dragonwagon

— a pandemic pantry post — POLENTA: A TEXTURE-Y COOKED CORNMEAL WHICH SERVES AS A BED FOR SAVORY STEWS, A FRIED EGG. BUT ALSO JUST FINE SERVED ON ITS OWN. IT’S PEASANT FOOD FROM THE NORTH OF ITALY, AND, IF YOU SKIP THE STOVETOP AND OVEN-BAKE IT, IT COULD NOT BE EASIER. I AM UPDATING AND DOING SOME RE-HORN-HONKING OF… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon Tagged With: cooking, Crescent dragonwagon, Dragonwagon recipes, polenta, Recipes

A SUMMER NIGHT’S DINNER, JUST AFTER THE FIELDS WERE MOWN

A SUMMER NIGHT’S DINNER, JUST AFTER THE FIELDS WERE MOWN

By Crescent Dragonwagon

Contentment. Outside, the slope down from the house towards the pond, grass yellowing on it, like a Van Gogh painting. Inside, the flowers: wild black-eyed susans and yarrow, perennials and annuals from the garden, fireworks in a blue glass vase on the dining room table. #DinnerWithDragonwagon, just me and my boyfriend, with plenty of help from Walker Farm. The first… Read More

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Zucchini Fritters, and…

Zucchini Fritters, and…

By Crescent Dragonwagon

Here is what we had to eat tonight, a slightly chilly, rainy July night in Vermont, my Alpha Dude and I… it’s #DinnerWithDragon. Zucchini Fritters, with a Dab of Yogurt Pilaf of Quinoa & Millet, with a Mustard-Seed Scented Saute of Onions & Mushrooms Sliced Heirloom Tomatoes Sliced Romaine Lettuce with Scallions, Mustard-Garlic-Scape Vinaigrette Why, you ask, is wholewheat pasta… Read More

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TOMATO MEDITATION

TOMATO MEDITATION

By Crescent Dragonwagon

So simple. The kind of tomatoes we wait all year for: just cut up in big chunks in a bowl, with a pressed clove of garlic, a whole lot of torn basil, a pinch of sea salt. (Some people doll them up: a splash of balsamic vinegar, say, some good extra virgin olive oil,  or a little minced green chile… Read More

Filed Under: #DinnerwithDragonwagon Tagged With: basil, dinnerswithdragonwagon, Dragonwagon, summer, tomatoes

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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

Read Aloud with Crescent

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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