Favorites List (February 2012) Recipe

Somehow this became the mother of all favorites lists. Happy February all.

Favorites List (February 2012)

Hi everyone. I'm not entirely sure what happened, somehow this turned into the mother of all favorites lists. The number of things that caught my attention kept piling up - articles, videos, photo series, recipes to try, places to visit someday - and here we are. Hope you enjoy, and I promise to be back in a few days with a recipe to share.

- Pacific Coast Trail Moleskine Journals

- The Joy of Quiet

- E.L. Williams

- Punjabi-laced chill-banger.

- The Car Picture, 1987 -- 2011 (via wb)

- Fantasy get-away, and this one too.

- Roasted Sesame Winter Slaw & Maria Speck's Artichoke Tart with Polenta Crust

- Things to Worry About

- The Art of Pesto (with Kinfolk)

- Spring 2012 cookbook preview

- Sofia, Bulgaria

- Finnish Potato Flat Bread & Vegetarian Pho

- Where The Wild Things Are - as read by Christopher Walken (via Hustler of Culture)

- Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers (link / PDF)

- School House Electric video

- Gold slippers (via Maggie)

- White picket fence

- John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter (via Ill Seen, Ill Said)

- Blue stripes

- Housesitting in Hawaii

- Colorblocked Bread Board

- The perfect way to spend $3.

- From Super Natural Every Day: Carnival Cookies & Quinoa Patties

- Made with love.

- Jen Causey + Nikole Herriott

Lead photo: A number of you were curious about the Buddha's hand referenced in the citrus salt post. It's a beauty, no?

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I am an occasional reader of your blog (I take it in big bites or single recipes rather than entry-by-entry) but always like to pause when your favourites lists come out – how lovely they are.

Hayden

Hi Heidi,
LOVE your cookbook and website and I am currently looking for something similar in NYC (headed there in May). Any suggestions on NYC? Blogs or websites or yummy eats?
in good food,
paula

paula

I love your monthly lists.
Thank you so much, fresh air!

Ruth

Dear Heidi,
I very much enjoyed this favorites list! I checked out Kinfolk as well — such a cool movement! Simple food, simple entertaining. The films are beautifully shot and inspiring. Recently I started my own food blog, called Dough. I am very new to the blogging world, but I’d appreciate it if you took at look!

Anna

A couple months ago you included a link to an amazing architect designed house. It had a beautiful wavy roof line, glass exterior walls and natural stone interior walls that ended short of the ceiling so you could look straight through the house over the walls.
I just went back through your favorites list and couldn’t find the link, does it still exist? I would really like to have another look at it.
Thanks Heidi. Love your work. Liz

HS: Hi Liz -the link must be somewhere buried in one of those favorites list. I’m blanking on which one though!

Elizabeth Long

thank you for sharing Pico Iyer’s article. I needed that! Such a nice reminder to myself to step away from the computer and make connections with loved ones, nature and the present moment.

sandra espinosa

We had a lovely experience at Hog island oyster company in a balmy November afternoon. Folks from all over the world and great food. Will have to file this one in the memory banks

foodieg

Always enjoy where your lists are going to take us!! Made the Artichoke, polenta dish and it was wonderful!! Even my 15month old son loved it:)

Ali

I have fallen in love with your site. It is so gorgeous and you have inspired me to see cooking as an adventure…not a chore.

Adrienne

I love the Picardie glasses! I got a set for Christmas and I use them for EVERYTHING…wine, juice, margaritas, tiny vases! They are wonderful!

Lara

Hi Heidi. This is a great list. I particularly enjoyed the Fitzgerald and the Steinbeck pieces.

Mithun Alva

I live in Sofia, Bulgaria and I’m happy to see my city in your February favorites list. Love, love, love you blog!

Lina

Dear Heidi, love that gorgeous rustic cutting board in the photo. I’m in the market for one just like that.
Can you recommend one?
Warmest thank you.
HS: Hi Katharine – I look for them at flea markets / antique shops 🙂 Have a look on eBay though. You might see one you like.

Katharine

What a very eclectic list. I love it!

Margarita

“Out of 265 votes, our 2012 Piglet People’s Choice Award is Super Natural Every Day by Heidi Swanson.” Congratulations! Well-deserved 🙂
HS: Thanks Miranda! This made my day 🙂

Miranda

I love School House Electric! I have one of their gorgeous fixtures from the artists series by Ellena James in my dining room, and my photo also happens to be in their catalogue! 🙂

Ashley

I love these lists, I always end up adding a new website from this to my favourites 🙂

Rachel

Thanks Heidi for putting my book on your list! Really honored! Enjoy the sugar love!
Kir Jensen
The Sugar Cube

Kir Jensen

Heidi, Thank you for all the goodies, which have proven to be a great procrastination tool this morning:)
And MIA kicks ass. I’ll be singing that song all day.
-E

erin @ yummy supper

Wow. Steinbeck’s letter to his son is so touching. I love that he didn’t dismiss his son’s declaration of love for Susan just because he was young. Though I’ve never been crazy about Steinbeck’s litterary work, I think I’m going to have to add this book to my wishlist. Thanks for the discovery!

Tierney

Prepared the artichoke tart with polenta crust last night. It would be a great picnic or potluck brunch contribution. Definitely worth waiting for 40+ minutes of cooling to room temp to allow the flavors to come together, and also beneficial to use a good source for the artichoke hearts and fresh goat cheese.

Beth

your lists are incredible. thank you!

mickie

That Christopher Walken video is funny. Thanks!

ileana

The curried brown butter lentil soup is just fabulous. The perfect winter night’s meal.

Christyl

Hi Heidi!
Thanks for including my Winter Slaw on your list…it’s always an honor to be on your radar 🙂
Love, Sarah B

Sarah B

Also, love this from the Steinbeck: “Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.” 🙂

Nori

I have those gold Tieks, and love them! Wait until they announce a coupon you can get by spamming your friends, and then get them. You can spam me. 🙂

Nori

I always love a good favorites list. Its nice to see what my fellow bloggers enjoy seeing. Those potato flat breads look very interesting!

Rob @ Foodfigure.com

What an amazing list – thank you so much for the link!

Jane Flanagan

Always a happy list; love it, Heidi!

The Healthy Apple

Great list. I’m loving the labels-such a great find. I’m a Steinbeck fan too. And the quinoa patties are now a staple around here. They are one of my favorite things. I’ve been topping them with marinara sauce and basil and stuffing them into lettuce, making a wrap with avocados and onions.

greenthyme

A lovely recap….Moleskin journals have been a favourite for years. Hubby always has a small notebook version in his pocket and keeps each one so we have a stack of them sitting in the study.

Anna @ the shady pine

Thanks for posting your favorites list. I fell in love with the “Moleskin Journal” blog. What amazing journals he has created. I was inspired to restart my own art journal. You rock!

Karen

i always love your favorites lists, heidi..and i’m tickled that you included my pho recipe. thanks so much. xo

tami

Your favorites are also so interesting. All of them.

Linda

love it all…!!!

ari

perfect, thank you

Leah

The Joy of Quiet is a wonderful piece. It succinctly expresses the need for human simplicity. Thank you so much for sharing 🙂

Megan

So lovely. Thank you. This list went perfectly with my morning tea.
Kacie

Kacie @ Gorge in the Gorge

beautiful list and wanderings…thank you.

simplyblythe

I haven’t even made it past the first item yet. Those PCT Moleskine journals are AMAZING!!!! Thanks do much for sharing!

Maggie

Love the Punjabi video listing. Quite amusing being that I’m of Indian descent!

EatFree

LOVE this love list! I’ve discovered so many great sites via yours – thanks! Made the tart from Wednesday’s Chef site last week and may only make polenta crusts from now on. Lived in Kyoto almost 20 years ago – Pico Iyer (the Joy of Quiet) came to a party out my house — a gentle soul, brilliant mind. What else… I want to house-sit in Hawaii and go to that workshop in Abruzzo Italy! Thanks for all the day-dream fodder.

Tricia

great list – and a lovely bit of reading when i settle down to relax this afternoon. thank you as always!

alison mcquade

Heidi,
I’ve been scanning thrift stores for months trying to find those glasses (and $3?). Thank you SO much!

Carolyn Zick

Lori — it’s called Buddha’s hand! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha%27s_hand
Heidi– thanks for this list, as always….I especially loved the NYT’s article about quiet…so perfect for me right now.

lauren@spicedplate

Heidi,
I suddenly see the strange alien looking fruit/vegetable in your photo everywhere….what is it?!

lori

Heidi what Im most excited to know is what you plan to do with your Buddhas hand?! Great list, thank you!

Leah

Lovin’ your favorites list! I want to try the slaw and artichoke tart… deeeelicious!!

Laurie {Simply Scratch}

You always have fabulous lists. Thanks especially for the link to the cookbooks. That gets me more excited than anything else…wow, I sound like my mother 🙂

Averie @ Love Veggies and Yoga

Love the quinoa patties. But I still prefer your recipe with kale.
Also, gonna definitely try the polenta tart!

Mike @TheIronYou

hi, does anyone know if the artichoke tart calls for polenta meal (grains), or the polenta you buy in plastic tubing (like at Trader Joe’s)?
Thanks!

Julia

What a list! I’m so glad you shared the spring cookbook preview from Eater because I didn’t know April Bloomfield was finally coming out with a book- she rocks!

la domestique

Thanks so much for linking to my post! Those flat breads are one of my all-time favourites! Thank you also for sharing all the other links!

Maria @ Scandifoodie

Thanks for that link to the Made With Love download! Awesome.

Emma Galloway

Heidi, thanks for the list of new cookbooks! Nested in that list is one from Kir Jensen, who makes the *best* cupcakes in Portland, no contest. I will cross my fingers that this book will allow me to recreate her cupcakes at home (a girl can dream!).

Deanne

Oh, I’ve been meaning to try the artichoke tart! I really enjoyed The Joy of Quiet. Love your lists 🙂

charlotte au chocolat

I’d never contemplated making an artichoke tart, but it sounds so delicious. Thank you for including it in the list. I’m looking forward to next month’s list already!

Anne

I just picked up your second cookbook, Super Natural Everyday, and I am so excited to get started on some recipes. It’s such a beautiful book.

jackie @ marin mama cooks

Heidi-I really love your favorites list–a sort of compass for me on food, art and other interesting things around the internet. I loved F. Scott Fitzgerald’s list for his daughter (useful for adults as well whose worry lists are too complicated and long–although mosquitoes are still on mine). The article on the Joy of Quiet was interesting too. I think you might enjoy a beautiful new blog by a Minnesota artist. Her name is Mary Jo and her blog is called Still (it’s full of spare, beautiful photos).

Kathleen

I have made the artichoke with polenta crust tart three times. I just can’t get enough of it. You are going to love it!

Michelle

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