Posts by: Charlotte

Bitter Greens Salad with Lemon & Honey | Let's Taco Bout It Blog

Bitter Greens Salad with Lemon & Honey

Recipe inspired by “Wyrd Sisters” by Terry Pratchett “Granny’s implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and, on occasion, mountains.” “Granny had also browbeaten the dwarfs who lived under the mountains and in fear of their lives into speeding the thing up. Many an egg…

Stuffed Eggplant | Let's Taco Bout It Blog

Stuffed Eggplant

Recipe inspired by “Wyrd Sisters” by Terry Pratchett “The words won’t be forgotten, thought Granny. They’ve got a power to them. They’re damn good words, as words go. There was yet another rattle of thunder, which ended with the kind of crash made, for example, by a sheet of tin escaping from someone’s hands and…

Dark Chocolate Dipped Wafer Cookies

Recipe inspired by the “Wyrd Sisters” by Terry Pratchett “Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn’t trust it. Often you couldn’t even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else—coincidence, maybe, or providence. You barred the door against it, and it was standing behind you….

Roasted Pumpkin

Recipe inspired by the book “Wyrd Sisters” by Terry Pratchett “She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.”   “Let him be whoever he thinks he is,” she…

Lemon Garlic Lobster Tails

Lemon Garlic Lobster Tails

Recipe inspired by the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald “A pair of stage ‘twins’—who turned out to be the girls in yellow—did a baby act in costume and champagne was served in glasses bigger than finger bowls. The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver…

Waldorf Salad

Recipe inspired by the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald “And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream…

Champagne Sabayon

Recipe inspired by the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald “There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.” “At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving…

Cauliflower Soup

Cauliflower Soup

Recipe inspired by the book “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood “But what did it mean?” I say. “Which?” he says. “Oh. It meant, ‘Don’t let the bastards grind you down.’ I guess we thought we were pretty smart, back then.” “I force a smile, but it’s all before me now. I can see why…

Milk Poached Cod with Potatoes

Milk Poached Cod with Potatoes

Recipe inspired by the book “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood Excerpts from the book: “We got the fish at Loaves and Fishes, with its wooden sign, fish with a smile and eyelashes. It doesn’t sell loaves though. Most households bake their own, though you can get dried-up rolls and wizened doughnuts at Daily Bread,…