Another pasta dinner with vegetables and nuts. I seem to be in the mood for the combination. This time it is sauteed cauliflower combined with minced picholine olives and parsley. After cooking the cauliflower in olive oil for about 7-8 minutes (add garlic after about 3-4 minutes), add some water and cook until the cauliflower is cooked. Add parsley and olive mixture (minced by hand or food processor), and cook another 1-2 minutes. Add cooked pasta with some of the pasta water. Add chopped roasted almonds and grated pecorino cheese. Season with salt and pepper now (with the olives, I have to be careful about how much salt I put in the dish.
Kira Nam Greene’s work explores female sexuality, desire and control through figure and food still-life paintings, surrounded by complex patterns. Imbuing the feminist legacies of Pattern and Decoration Movement with transnational, multicultural motifs, Greene creates colorful paintings that are unique combinations of realism and abstraction, employing diverse media such as oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolor and colored pencil. Combining Pop Art tropes and transnationalism, she also examines the politics of food through the depiction of brand name food products, or junk food. Recently, Greene started a figurative painting series spurred by the 2016 Presidential Election, Women’s March, #metoo movement and ensuing crisis of conscience, this new body of work aspires to present the power of collective action by women.