A slight correction to Sexy Mac and Cheese 28 February 2007 9:44 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cheese, advice, sundance, recipes, eating, vegetarian, cooking , 1 comment so farWhile making split pea soup on Monday, I consulted a table of food weights and volumes in my copy of Wannée Kookboek, a Dutch kitchen bible of sorts, and discovered that I’ve been messing up the conversion from pounds to cups of pasta in my Sexy Mac and Cheese recipe. A note in a side column next to the table in Wannée explains the difference between a metric cup (1.5 dL or 150 mL) and an English cup (~2.37 dL or 237 mL). Oooooops! (more…)
Oh look! A decoy! 27 February 2007 9:41 pm
Posted by Tracy in : pictures, sundance, eugene, meta , 4 commentsDear readers,
In lieu of a post of substance, I am posting an embarrasing photo of myself. But first, a question: when I signed into WordPress just now, it showed yesterday’s post as “private,” meaning maybe none of you saw it until I changed the status a few minutes ago. Anybody care to report whether Monkey Monday actually happened on, y’know, Monday this week? I’d sure appreciate it. And now, the decoy: (more…)
Monkey Monday: back to basics 26 February 2007 5:37 pm
Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, school, work, kitchen gear, monkeys, environment, sustainability, restaurants, eating, eugene, soup, cooking , add a commentAck! I just realized I’ve been trying to shape this post into cohesive paragraphs, but that’s not what Monkey Monday is about at all! It’s about giving myself permission to post random lists of disjointed thoughts! Here goes: (more…)
It must be February, and other thoughts on eating seasonally. 23 February 2007 7:22 pm
Posted by Tracy in : seasonality, meat, vegan, vegetarian, eating, CSA, cooking , 1 comment so farSome people I know swear that summer is their most carnivorous season — they just can’t resist dead animal flesh cooked on the grill. Not me. I get closest to veganism or even (gods and goddesses forbid) a raw foods diet during the hottest days of the year, when everything growing is so ripe and fresh it’s hard to think of eating anything else. (more…)
I have a dream. 22 February 2007 6:34 pm
Posted by Tracy in : school, work, tea, environment, sustainability, eating, CSA, agriculture, cooking , add a commentOkay, many dreams. But a lot of them overlap in a vision I had driving home from the Small Farms Conference, a vision that was more like a monologue of me talking to myself about how cool it would be to cook for an urban farm or community garden (more…)
