BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE
Writing poetry, reading poetry, we are invited to join with others in celebrating life, even the ordinary, daily pleasures. Here the Seattle poet and physician, Peter Pereira, offer us a simple meal.
A Pot of Red Lentils
simmers on the kitchen stove.
All afternoon dense kernels
surrender to the fertile
juices, their tender bellies
swelling with [...]
(As read and prepared by Alex Tuller for the March 30, 2006 podcast)
Just as simple, easy, delicious as the last week’s.
Per person you need two quail
Salt
Pepper
Butter
Wash and dry the quail, then salt and pepper them lightly all over inside and out. Massage the lightly and loosely cover and refrigerate for 12 to 24 hours.
Wipe the [...]
This week’s show is about editing (and preparation). The irony is that it’s the longest show we’ve ever produced, but you have to create choas to move forward. Please send us your comments on our experimentation with format.
(Please note there is an editing mistake in Leslie’s segment. Serves us right for having a theme to [...]
Simple, easy, delicious.
Prior to cooking these quail, I had never cooked one before. So I thought I ought to do this as simply as possible to get a good idea for how the birds cooks, what the texture is like once cooked and what the base flavor of the bird is when cooked.
Per person you [...]
On this week’s show we have Leslie Land on editing the garden during spring cleaning, Cari Swanson discusses getting into the horse business, Alex Tuller is much too busy to cook but I throw together a quick tomato sauce to save you over (we’ll cook you some quail next week to make up for [...]
Part I
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?
The Bridegroom’s doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
May’st hear the merry din.’
He holds him with his skinny hand,
‘There was a ship,’ quoth he.
‘Hold off! [...]
On this week’s show Leslie Land explains why you should never plant Brugmansia outside your bedroom window and tackles the leafy ghosts in her basement, Cari Swanson recalls meeting with equestrian icon Sally Swift and leaving a more balanced and centered rider, Alex Tuller warms the evening chill with an outstanding lentil soup, Dean Temple [...]
This is really a great soup on a cold day. Lentils are perfect cold weather food and I’ve made this with a pork stock, so it is very Hudson Valley, because local pork is really good here.
Pork stock
Pork bone with meat and fat on it
Bay leaf
1 clove
1 carrot roughly chopped
peppercorns 5 or so
onion 1 yellow [...]
On this week’s show we have Leslie Land on what do with that extra 40 gallons of maple sap you have sitting around the house and why it may become a rarity, Cari Swanson escapes the horse farm for a day with a trip to the Metropolitan Museum and spends her time looking at horse [...]
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE
This fine poem by Rodney Torreson, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, looks into the world of boys arriving at the edge of manhood, and compares their natural wildness to that of dogs, with whom they feel a kinship.
On A Moonstruck Gravel Road
The sheep-killing dogs saunter home,
wool scraps in their teeth.
From [...]