On today’s show we have NY Times Garden columnist Leslie Land on mangelwurtzels, and who doesn’t get excited about those, and getting ready for spring, Alex Tuller on making mush of the cold cellar’s last eggplants, Dean Temple celebrates Halloween yet again with Edgar Allen Poe, and we have Ilana Papele and her Hudson Valley [...]
The Haunted Palace
In the greenest of our valleys
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace–
Radiant palace–reared its head.
In the monarch Thought’s dominion–
It stood there!
Never seraph spread a pinion
Over fabric half so fair!
Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow,
(This–all this–was in the olden
Time long ago,)
And every gentle air that dallied,
In that sweet [...]
One big eggplant
Garlic*
3 tomatoes peeled, seeded & chopped
1 tsp. Paprika
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
1/2 tsp coriander seeds
olive oil
lemon juice
*I do not give amounts for garlic, use how ever much you like
Preheat oven to 425. Cut slits into the eggplant and insert slices of garlic. Bake in oven until the skin is charred and blistered. Remove and [...]
On today’s show we have NY Times Garden columnist Leslie Land storing dahlias and the great lost Chestnuts, Alex Tuller mixes up a batch of her pumpkin bread, Dean Temple sets the table for Halloween with a little reading from Washington Irving, and Ilana Papele is back in the studio with fun adn whacky things [...]
In honor of both the upcoming Halloween holiday and the Hudson Valley, the reading for the October 20, 2005, podcast was the opening paragraphs of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Irving was a wonderful writer, and the story is much, much better than anything you have seen on tv or in the movies.
You can find [...]
(As prepared and read by Alex Tuller for the October 20, 2005 podcast)
Makes two loafs
3 cups flour
1 tsp salt
2 cups sugar
1 tsp baking soda
2 cups fresh pumpkin puree (drained through cheese cloth for at least 30 minutes)
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs beaten
1/4 cup boiling water
1/4 cup bourbon
1/4 cup raisins
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 [...]
On today’s show we have NY Times Garden columnist Leslie Land on rain and where is our new climate zone map already?!!; Cari Swanson on the three T’s of horse and rider, technique, timing and temperament; Alex Tuller was too busy to eat well this week and ordered pizza so there is no recipe; we [...]
(As prepared by Alex Tuller the day of the October 13, 2005 podcast)
Read menu. Pick up phone. Order pizza. Pay driver. Set table. Eat. Watch Daily Show. Go back to work.
Mmmmm. Delicious.
– Our apologies. The recipe will be back next week, and look for all kinds of new developments in this segment of the show [...]
On today’s show we have NY Times Garden columnist Leslie Land on the dry success of Lima beans and planting your garlic already, Alex Tuller makes an absolutely delicious focaccia with bermuda onion and orange tomatoes, special guest and local voice-over personality Carola Kittridge drops by to read Don Marquis’ “the song of mehitabel,” and [...]
the song of mehitabel
this is the song of mehitabel
of mehitabel the alley cat
as i wrote you before boss
mehitabel is a believer
in the pythagorean
theory of the transmigration
of the soul and she claims
that formerly her spirit
was incarnated in the body
of cleopatra
that was a long time ago
and one must not be
surprised if mehitabel
has forgotten some of her
more [...]