Child: There’s bacon on my pizza ewww! Poor piggies! Me: Oh no! And the cheese is made from milk stolen from baby cows! D: And the wheat! Have you heard
Category: Edibles
Science! And spaghetti sauce.
Every year about this time we make a metric buttload of tomato sauce. Well, not quite tomato — mine has onions, garlic, peppers and stuff in it too. From a
An encouragement: Tomato sauce
Tomato sauce! We go through so much of it I’ve always thought it might be one those things that’s worthwhile to make in bulk, but so many recipes involved peeling
An encouragement: Soup stock
Soup! A foundation of winter food in our house for sure. I’m a huge proponent of making one’s own soup stock. It costs pretty much nothing and if you start
Libations, election, for the watching of, 2011 version
(H/t to the lovely Melle for finding the photo) Again we ponder the eternal question of what to drink while awaiting election results. Last time around we went with Irish
‘Tis the season for Expert Curmudgeons again
In previous years we’ve had warnings about Santa’s fatness setting a bad example and how we should all abjure cookies and eggnog and subsist on carrot sticks and water at
Better safe than sorry
Walking up the street today on the way home, M and I were passed by the ice-cream truck, which then stopped a hundred metres up the street by the park.
WWI vs. recession
You’ll probably need to click through to the original site (a wonderful exhibition of WWI and WWII posters) to read this: Eat local. Preserve at the height of the harvest.
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Tue Jun 22, 2010
Metabolic State Alters Economic Decision Making under Risk in Humans This is actually a more interesting article than one might guess by the title. As one might’ve expected, they find
Jam: an encouragement, with pictures
I like to make my own jam. Unless you buy the crazy-expensive kinds, store-bought jam tastes kind of blah — over-sweet, too much filler, not enough fruit. I think I
Perspective
Thank you, sir, for worrying about the right things: John Williams has been making wine in California’s Napa Valley for nearly 30 years, and he farms so ecologically that his
Chocolate-mint ice cream
I mentioned this recipe on Facebook and got requests, so here it is. It’s adapted from the KitchenAid ice-cream maker book, but of course any ice-cream maker will work. I
Sensible words from Michael Pollan
Well, you know, it’s very interesting. Since this book came out, where I argue don’t buy high-fructose corn syrup and don’t buy products with more than five ingredients, suddenly the
Estonian apple cake, an ongoing saga
Once upon a time I tried to make apple cake from my grandmother’s verbal recipe: “It’s a sweet dough, with yeast and cardamom. Then apples and some sugar and flour
It’s a good thing there aren’t many in a package
For some years now various people who’ve spent time in Australia have been telling me about Tim Tams, which are a sort of chocolate-covered cream-filled cookie. It’s not their cookie-ness
Light!
Tomorrow when we wake up, the sun will rise a bit earlier and set a bit later. Hurray! Light! Happy solstice. To celebrate I made cookies with a very large
Two thumbs up for Supper Solved
M and I went to Supper Solved a week or so ago to make dinner entrees. It’s one of those newish places that’s designed to send you home in a
Oh, fine, eat it then.
Me, having picked M up from a birthday party, as she dug into her loot bag: “Honey, don’t fill up on sugary junk. We’re going out to dinner.” Her: “I
Libations, election, for the watching of
A week or two ago we were sitting around debating what form of libation this election might require. Tequila, suggested D. Hmm, maybe. A novel idea, because La Fin du
‘Struth.
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