I’m preparing for my planned week of local eating by obtaining some local food products — specifically, peanut butter from The Peanut Shop of Williamsburg (not so important), and staple grain items from Wade’s Mill (very important). For the grains, I bought whole and white bread flours, white all purpose flour, semolina flour and yellow [...]
I’ve been reading more than a few cooking blogs for a while now, and sometime they’re very well written and I can’t fault their cooking techniques or their blogging techniques. Sometimes they’re awful and spread bold-faced lies about cooking. Here’s my way of combating that: 1. You don’t always need to follow a recipe. If [...]
I’ve been so amused and confused by gourmeton.com that I’ve continued to try to figure out what makes it tick, adding to my original post a couple of times. First I couldn’t figure out what translation system could possibly yield such terrible (yet strangely comprehensible) English, then I found a whole bunch of sister sites [...]
I’d like to try buying all locally-grown food, something that’s all the rage in the crazy environmentalist circles right now. Not because I buy the environmental argument: yesterday the media were all over a report that cutting red meat and dairy products from your diet does more for the environment than eating locally-grown food. I [...]
When I first happened across this site (via a Google search) I assumed it was some strange fluke that would be gone in a week or two. Yet months later it’s still around, and I still have no idea what this site does. Let me try to explain. It appears to be a storefront where [...]
I moved off my plateau on Saturday, losing two more pounds that were still off this morning. This could be water weight, it could be a lot of things. But after two full weeks at the same weight, I take it as a good sign. I went out to eat on Saturday and on Sunday. [...]
I read an article on alternet.org about avoiding marriage. I write short declarative sentences. I disagreed with it. As I often do. I see this sentiment everywhere: how does one maintain individuality within a marriage? The short answer: You don’t, at least, not in so many words. But what I mean is this – at [...]
Kara mentioned in an earlier post that we were having some trouble with tiny black ants in our kitchen. Seems like a lot of people do during the spring, so I just want to put in a plug for the borax formula we mixed up to bait the ants in our kitchen. If you have [...]
Bought a papaya on sale this Sunday with no particular plans in mind. I made this last night and tasted it this morning, and I think it’s a winner. Props to Kara for suggesting I freeze the papaya. Ingredients 1 medium ripe papaya (1 1/2 to 2 pounds) 1/2 cup frozen raspberries 1/4 to 1/2 [...]
The Washington Post ran an article today about – horrors of horrors – how the recession has caused families to cut coupons, visit stores closer to home, organize their errands in the most efficient possible way and stop eating organic. Excuse me while I shed a tear or two. Families with many kids have been [...]