Free stuff! I’ve gotten a load of a pallets recently, and I hunger for more! I got 5 my first trip out, and promptly used 4 to make a compost bin, at long last. I need to find a pitchfork though! I’ve got so much straw and yard cuttings and kitchen scraps in there it’s [...]
Summer… time for grilling! I got 1 lb of awesome looking Yak meat from a Taos grazier who has a stand at the farmers market. The plan: to craft some into a burger in the style of this spicy bison burger recipe, and make more of it into some green chili breakfast sausage! Yay! I [...]
I made a delicious soup tonight! It was split mung bean (dhal) which I made because in my Higher Taste cookbook they mention mung a lot, and the last time I was at the hippie co-op I saw they had mung beans in the bulk section! So, I bought some and then made this soup with [...]
And that means stress. Stress from shopping, ordering, shipping, presents, work, school, visit, and so on. I suck at school SO HARD, if not for that I think I’d be feeling a lot better. Arhg. I made some soup last night, a recipe I snagged from a link from Jersey - Potato and Leek soup [...]
Because, why not.
Using this recipe, because a blog post got me in the mood (of course). It was labor-intensive, but very cool to watch the batter rise up with the action of REAL LIVE YEASTS. Also, I must say any recipe that requires the use of a food thermometer is pleasing to me.
Also, in [...]
In the days that followed returning too food, at least my cravings for junk food disappeared in the face of being able to eat! So that was something, I didn’t just run out and eat a double-double. I made the first vegetable soup monday, and it was in fact pretty good! Maybe a little bland, [...]
Today is the day when I will feel transcendence! … or not. As suspected I feel pretty much like I did yesterday, although, I do feel like I have a better control on the cravings. Saturday i wanted everything in the world from chinese good to burgers to pizza and sunday was then comparatively [...]
So, the other day andrew and I were talking, as we are wont to do, and … cookbooks came up. Specifically, how the latest edition of a particular cookbook, already known for its straighforward style, would now have “a reduced emphasis on professional techniques,” and we were pondering what that might mean, exactly. I suggested [...]
I got a raise at work this week! Our fiscal year ends Sep 30, so there’s been the usual flurry of omg spend money omg we’re out of money omg performance reviews. Somehow I manage to convince people that I’m useful and ended up 3.5 + 4 = 7.5 from the two appraisals (don’t ask) [...]
It’s been a good couple days for mail lately! Mostly because I’m spending a lot of money, and presents arrive for me, but also yesterday I got a really sweet package from IFJ I lol’d when I opened it, front and center was a box of lens wipes, because every time I go anywhere [...]