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KARACOOKS
KARACOOKS
Good Food · Honest History · Strong Opinions
  • Girls weekend charcuterie board on a covered deck near Tallulah Falls: salami roses, prosciutto, brie topped with pomegranate seeds, cubed cheese, crackers, apples, grapes, clementines, olives and cornichons, with a bottle of prosecco and two wine tumblers, woods beyond the railing.

    Friday Roundup #43

    ByKara October 16October 16 Friday Roundup, Writing

    A rainy girls weekend near Tallulah Falls, saffron crocus at last, a rabbit hole called Any Human Ever, World Food Day, and what I’m reading and watching.

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  • The downstairs powder room painted in Benjamin Moore Saybrook Sage, white crown molding above and the old white baseboard still unpainted below, with afternoon light coming through the window blinds and striping the wall.

    Friday Roundup #42

    ByKara October 9October 8 Friday Roundup, Writing

    Saybrook Sage on the powder room walls, the first report from the meat-minimalized week, still no saffron, and a weekend in the north Georgia mountains.

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  • A white-tailed doe stands at the edge of a shallow creek, looking toward the camera, with an eroded root-tangled bank behind her.

    Friday Roundup #33

    ByKara July 24July 24 Friday Roundup, Writing

    Friday Roundup #33: a curious creek-walk doe, our tattoo consults, a great dinner at Noosh, brussels sprouts sprouting, and a Duma Key reread.

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  • Macro close-up of a deep magenta and purple dinner-plate dahlia, its petals spiraling inward to a tightly coiled, pale-tipped center.

    Friday Roundup #32 (First Concert Since March Edition)

    ByKara July 17July 18 Friday Roundup, Writing

    Friday Roundup #32: our first concert since March, the great email reckoning, Wicked parts one and two, and the dinner-plate dahlias gone wild in the rain.

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  • A bee on an orange cosmos bloom in the back garden, hero image for Friday Roundup #31

    Friday Roundup #31

    ByKara July 10July 12 Friday Roundup, Writing

    Friday Roundup #31: a July 4 thunderstorm, a macro session with the garden bees, a big salad craving after too much bo ssam, and re-reading Killers of the Flower Moon.

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  • The vaulted, tiled Great Hall (Registry Room) at Ellis Island with two American flags, a Fourth of July reflection.

    Friday Roundup #30

    ByKara July 3July 12 Friday Roundup, Personal

    Friday Roundup #30: a complicated Fourth of July, a 2008 photo from the Great Hall at Ellis Island, fall brussels sprouts, and Momofuku Bo Ssam on the kamado.

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  • Red door in a whitewashed brick wall, Lynchburg, Virginia.

    Friday Roundup #29

    ByKara June 26July 12 Friday Roundup, Personal

    Friday Roundup: A thin week at karacooks: a garden running late, a monster love story up for a Hugo, ten pounds of cherries, and a gallon of mustard landing Thursday.

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  • A green anole with its mouth open and it's tongue sticking out, resting on the rim of a terracotta mint pot in the garden

    Friday Roundup #28

    ByKara June 19July 12 Friday Roundup, Personal

    A steamy Georgia-summer roundup: dirty spaghetti on the must-try list, Good Culture cottage cheese, the new Nora Roberts, cherry plums, and Kamado-grilled lunches.

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  • A double rainbow arching over a rain-soaked interstate highway under a slate-gray storm sky, with a distant overpass and green trees along the roadside

    Friday Roundup #27

    ByKara June 5July 12 Friday Roundup, Travel

    Six days into a Tulsa road trip: a Route 66 bridge that sings Woody Guthrie, the best Moroccan tagine of my life, Tex-Mex since 1953, and two right slippers

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  • A cast iron skillet on a granite countertop filled with quartered Roma and cherry tomatoes, whole peeled garlic cloves, two bay leaves, and a generous sprinkle of dried oregano, ready to go into the oven.

    Friday Roundup #22

    ByKara February 21July 12 Friday Roundup

    The weather has been beautiful the last couple of days. I’m hoping it holds through the weekend because I have plans. What are you reading/watching/cooking/dealing with this week? Let me know in the comments. P.S. The tomato-garlic sauce is embarrassingly simple. You’re going to wonder why you ever bought jarred sauce. P.P.S. Alysa Liu. That’s…

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