rooting the sun

roasted broccolini with sesame and cilantro

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This weekend is the weekend of the clock. The push forward that creates evening glow and delicate dusk. The biannual manipulation that seals and measures our fate into hours of daylight. The ability to drive home in the sun, coupled with the precious biology of life growing and reaching out again. This time of year I am extremely responsive to signs of life, casually desperate to hear a different song. I am cool and calculating, but ready for a change in pace.

It’s a mellow story that we aim to write. One that we can intently reference or experience later – a reminder that life isn’t manufactured. It’s created and nurtured. The roots are thick through every season. There’s love to be found around every corner. There’s never a shuffle – only appreciation for opportunity. Winter is in every right as beautiful as spring, and more importantly, it’s necessary. The seasons change here, sometimes violently, sometimes quietly – but they always unfurl into a successive chapter.  Periods of new and periods of renew. Periods of decay, and periods of silence. Periods that open doors and finish each other’s sentences. Periods that close doors and lay heads to rest. A story that embraces the whole and the sum. In progress and in good taste.

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roasted broccolini with sesame clusters and cilantro
 
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Ingredients
  • sesame clusters:

  • 1 large egg white, whisked until foamy
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tbl brown sugar
  • zest of ½ lemon
  • ¼ tsp chili powder
  • 1 cup sesame seed

  • 1 bunch broccolini
  • 1 tbl olive oil

  • fresh cilantro
Instructions
  1. preheat oven to 350 degrees. in a large bowl combine egg white, salt, brown sugar, lemon zest, and chili powder. stir to combine. add sesame seed and combine until a clumped mixture forms.
  2. on a large baking sheet spoon clusters of sesame seed, and roast 10-12 minutes, until golden and hardened. remove and cool.
  3. increase oven to 400 degrees. combine broccolini with olive oil, and a dash of salt and pepper. roast on a separate sheet pan for 20 minutes.
  4. toss roasted broccolini with sesame clusters and cilantro.

Comments

  2. I just love how you embrace each season and allow it to inspire your creativity. What a refreshing and yet simple combination, one that makes the broccolini shine!

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