“It is not my ideas to be prominent but it is my actions to be realized”
“The sideboard would be laden with broiled chops, eggs, rashers of bacon and ham, potatoes hashed with herbs and fried in butter, bread puddings each in its own puddle of sauce, a platter of crisp radishes and pickles on ice, dishes of stewed fruit from the orchard topped with fresh cream-”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“I order the fragrant bison meatballs in a tart cranberry sauce to start, and then move on to other mouthwatering things- the roasted-vegetable platter sprinkled with just the right amount of herbs and pepper, and the honey-roasted rabbit, which practically falls apart on my tongue.”
Source: Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
“First up were these dainty heirloom vegetables, speared like lollipops on a "fence" of fine metal pricks. "I'm not a minimalist by nature," the chef explains of this simple yet exquisite dish, "but sometimes the stuff we get from the farm is so perfect, I feel like I shouldn't do much with it: just vegetables, naked, with salt and a little lemon vinaigrette." Andrew and I plucked the carrots, fennel, radishes, and greens one by one, relishing the powerful flavor contained within each, along with the snap, crunch, and wholesomeness. So simple and pure.
But it wasn't all so austere. We moved on to luscious potato gnocchi, fresh tilefish from Montauk, and my favorite, duck. Blue Hill gets its ducks from a local farm called Garden of Spices, where they're raised on grass, something that is rarely done in this country. "We cold smoke the legs for several hours- tenderizing the muscles from all that activity- and roast the breasts on the bone.”
Source: Brooklyn in Love: A Delicious Memoir of Food, Family, and Finding Yourself
“Don't blame arseholes for crapping on you - instead move out of the way.”
“It is a tremendous gift to simply and truly listen to another.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“I wonder how it is that we are all connected despite our tremendous differences.”
Source: The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies
“Love should not be treated as panacea for all happiness and excessive love or love at the wrong place or for wrong people can become a source of tremendous pain and misery.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers
“i could be anything in the world but i wanted to be his”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers