As several readers have pointed out, there are no recipes in Baker’s Blues. There are reasons for this, which I won’t go into here, but I want to assure those who are interested that most of the food described in the book is very real, and I fully intend to share the recipes. Eventually.
‘Tis the Season
No, not that season. The piñon season. Here in New Mexico the harvest period runs September through November every year, but only once every seven years do the trees produce a bumper crop like we’ve got now.
Of Mice and Men
photo by Martha Sexton
The counter by the back door was covered with what looked like blue cupcake sprinkles. Of course, at 7 AM and Geoff and I weren’t really processing information yet.
He got it before I did.
“We’ve got a mouse,” he said.