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Recipe Hello Reader, I call this cocktail the crazy red head because it's a ginger sour topped with red wine. I use Meyer lemon because it's the season and brandy because I'm not a whiskey drinker but you do you. I think it's sort of festive so I've decided to share it in the holiday season. Get the Recipe here Fiction I just finished "reading" the audiobook version of The Savage Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie and now I've gone down the rabbit hole of Little Canadas and...

Recipe RecipeFiction ♬ original sound - RecipeFiction This is what my meals look like between photographs. I just finished lunch. Left over french lentil soup eaten straight from the pan I reheated it in. No garnish, no bowl, no pictures, and it was delicious. This is just to say that life goes on between the postings and there’s the beauty. But just in case you want a little spice here is some that is perfect for every day or entertaining. Savory mushroom salt Sweet moroccan spiced hot honey...

giving thanks without a recipe Hello Reader, It's not about thanksgiving, it's about giving thanks. It's got little to do with pilgrims or pumpkin cheesecake or dinner rolls either- but I've got recipes for two out of three . click here to read more about it plus links to the two recipes below Basque style pumpkin cheesecake Soft and golden pumpkin dinner rolls See you next week! My goal is to keep Recipe Fiction, the website, and Recipe Fiction, the newsletter ad free. If you would like to...

Hello Reader, I love brunch. In my twenties it was all about waiting in line on a Sunday afternoon (because that’s one of my favorite things about brunch -it’s breakfast but at lunch time). Standing out on the sidewalk with friends and lovers while the hostess handed out coffee in thick mugs and I plotted my meal order in my head (biscuits and gravy? Eggs benny? Two eggs over medium with sausage patties and rye toast?). Then we ate, laughing and drinking, and we didn’t take a single picture...

may 2025 Recipe oven roasted red wine strawberry focaccia Hello Reader, No, not socca with strawberries. That doesn't seem like an ideal combination- unlike strawberries and red wine which is. And that beautifully pillowy focaccia pictured above is topped with just that. Strawberries (not yet at the peak of the season but still delicious) oven roasted with red wine and just a touch of sugar. So good warm from the oven and slathered with goat cheese or sweetened up with maple syrup for a not...

Recipe Hello Reader, I've got no cheeky descriptions or clickbait for you- just some pictures of my latest recipe posts and a reminder to feed the wolf that protects the weak and fights for freedom. Get the Tuna Salad Recipe here Get the Cilantro Cod Recipe Here Fiction untitled verse The tongue of the serpent and the tongue of the dog meet, fork and spoon, opposites but the same, welded together by myth and a desire to see heaven dangling like diamonds from the hand of a god. God of rain,...

Issue #5 Recipe roasted hazelnuts with rosemary and olive oil Hello Reader, In high school the yearbook committee raised funds by selling candy grams- I don’t remember if they were chocolates or roses or balloons or carnations and candy hearts but I do remember that they were delivered during 4th period, the one before lunch. My fourth period class was, what was called at the time “home economics”, and that class was teaming with popular kids- cheerleaders, football players, the girl that was...

Issue #4 Recipe Hello Reader, Today I'm serving a drink I call Empathy, because it's better than drinking alone. Actually it's a roundup of my favorite hot drinks Get the Recipes here Fiction Dorothy’s Curse (Which, like the Spanish Flu that was not Spanish, is named after Dorothy who did not do the cursing) I curse you to grow a heart. To always be courageous. To find home. I curse you to get a brain. It is beautiful and awful to be so cursed- like parched soil that becomes a flood. To be so...

Issue #5 Recipe Hello Reader, Writing a “non recipe” recipe takes me longer (especially for a drink) than if I offered no choices. This Michelada is no exception-how much heat, how much salty, how much tomato or Clamato or V8, these things are a matter of opinion. When I make Micheladas or Bloody Marys at home mine has less salt and heat than the Misters'- that ginormous salty rim on the photo is for him. I rediscovered the Michelada a few years ago when visiting Las Vegas- so perfect on a...