olive oil

serves 4
- 1/2 can goya cannellini or white great northern beans
- pinch salt & pepper
- 1/2 tsp lemon juice
- 3 tsp your favorite extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tsp o&co basil olive oil or fresh chopped basil and olive oil pulsed in food processor
- 4 roasted garlic cloves
- 1/2 french baguette

recipe
- slice off top of garlic head, add 1/2 tsp olive oil, wrap in foil and roast for 1 hr at 400 deg
- rinse beans
- when garlic has cooled, squeeze cloves into food processor with beans, salt, lemon juice
- pulse ingredients, adding oil as you go to get desired consistency
- plate and add basil oil and pepper
- serve with slices of toasted baguette

variations
- top with thinly sliced red onion, scallion, or diced cherry tomato
- instead of baguette try pumpernickel or whole grain bread with raisin

Sunday
Wednesday

the quince buds are opening

Years ago I read Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains, about doctor (and amazing human being) Paul Farmer who founded the Partners in Health clinic in Haiti.

His story inspired me to go back to school, to want to design for the other 90% or help create tools that could be used to help victims like those of the latest disaster.

Read more about the book’s impact on others.

If you’re thinking of donating money, consider PIH or The Clinton Foundation.

UPDATE: Jan 14: Here is Kidder’s op-ed piece on PIH in today’s NYT.

before
now: sideboard with quince flower in vase
before
now: frames finally up on the wall
before
now: white cushion; pillow and throw previously on couch
before
now:pillows from west elm

Just got back from Stowe, Vermont. The town was cold, cute, and creative.

stops along the way:
hen of the wood
stowe mountain
topnotch spa
green mountain art gallery

Take a look at my favorite images from the trip below and view the slideshow to see more.

rt 89
On way up in car after hour # 5. Bored, I started taking pictures.

mountains of stowe

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