Each year I celebrate the Harvest Moon by baking a pie and performing made-up rituals with my friends around the kitchen table. I write something that feels important to us on top of the pie and we put the year to bed by noting things that we’d like to let go of on slips of paper and burning them.
This year, I watched the Super-Lunar-Eclipse-Harvest-Moon rise from my studio where I was making a painting about its very self. It was the clearest I’ve ever seen its face and all felt very fortuitous.
This painting, I’ll Cook You a Pie on the Harvest Moon, was shown alongside several other works in Emblems - a group show by Partnership Editions with Eryn Lougheed and Lily Snowden-Fine.
The pie I bake comes from a recipe of my Grandma’s called 'Special Chicken Pie - Good for a weekend dish as serves about 8’ which was included in the recipe book we made together.
The book brought together her stories about food, her every day recipes, old Jewish classics, recipes handed down generations and new recipes picked up from well loved restaurants.
One of my favourite pages reads..
I first realised that I really had to learn to cook when I suddenly got stuck with a baby instead of a paintbrush in my hand. There I was, all day. I put the baby on my hip and the book in my hand and I experimented, because it was the only way I could be at all
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I first realised that I really had to learn to cook when I suddenly got stuck with a baby instead of a paintbrush in my hand. There I was, all day. I put the baby on my hip and the book in my hand and I experimented, because it was the only way I could be at all
creative
Would you rather?Molly Martin
Would you rather dauphinoise or Jacket potato? I adore dauphinoise! but a good old jacket potato piled with beans, coleslaw and crunchy salad is one of my all time favourite comfort foods!
What recipe do you cook for your loved ones? Macaroni cheese
What do you cook when you’re sick? Marmite pasta. Honestly, it's surprisingly delicious and it's got all the B vitamins you need!
What is Studio Lunch I find lunch a bit of an inconvenience in the studio - so I don't make much time for it! It's always simple and fast. In Autumn / Winter it's usually soup with a hunk of bread. In Spring / Summer it's often pesto pasta or quiche with loads of sauerkraut!
Would you rather dauphinoise or Jacket potato? I adore dauphinoise! but a good old jacket potato piled with beans, coleslaw and crunchy salad is one of my all time favourite comfort foods!
What recipe do you cook for your loved ones? Macaroni cheese
What do you cook when you’re sick? Marmite pasta. Honestly, it's surprisingly delicious and it's got all the B vitamins you need!
What is Studio Lunch I find lunch a bit of an inconvenience in the studio - so I don't make much time for it! It's always simple and fast. In Autumn / Winter it's usually soup with a hunk of bread. In Spring / Summer it's often pesto pasta or quiche with loads of sauerkraut!
