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Monkey Monday: “eat local” weekend food logs 23 April 2007 8:22 pm

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Important finding number one: Quitting caffeine cold turkey is not for the faint of heart like me. I had a raging headache by around 2 PM Saturday and gave in and had some freaking tea already around 8 PM, after which sources report I was much less hellish to be around (and I will concede that it was much more pleasant to be me, oh yes). But! Aside from that tea and some salt and some cumin, everything else I ate this weekend was grown or manufactured in Oregon, with the exception of some russet potatoes from Washington, because I miscalculated the amount of spuds it would take to get me through the weekend. The single lamest part of the experiment (besides the whole wanting to kill everything for lack of caffeine) was that I got totally insanely possessive about my food, because there were so few things in the house that fit my (admittedly totally arbitrary) dietary parameters. The caffeine-withdrawal-induced crankiness almost certainly didn’t help with my food possessiveness, to put it mildly. Anyway. On to what I ate! (more…)

Hungry Tracy redux: eating local 20 April 2007 9:27 pm

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Think of me when you’re eating whatever you want this weekend; I’ll be overthinking all my meals even more than usual. For class! You see, I’m supposed to consume only food and drinks that have been “grown or processed locally.” (more…)

Recipe: Buckwheat Crèpes 19 April 2007 8:23 pm

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So back in February I realized Mardi Gras is Shrove Tuesday and an excuse to eat pancakes (not that I need one besides “they’re delicious”) and I made a list of pancake-type recipes I love and started drafting entries about these tasty treats. Yesterday’s post is one result of those efforts, and today’s is another, because after two months it’s about time (and also none of my other draft entries were this close to being finished.) (more…)

Recipe: Cottage Cheese Pancakes 18 April 2007 6:15 pm

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I got the recipe for these delicious tasty treats from a New York Times article by Mark “The Minimalist” Bittman on 20 December 2006. Bittman called them “Light, Fluffy, and Rich Cottage Cheese Pancakes” and I call them delicious. What’s especially excellent how they’re all chock-full of delicious protein, which means if I play it safe with the sweet toppings they’ll keep me full for an hour or two longer than a starchier version. Yum again.

Other good things about these pancakes are the fact that the recipe calls for yogurt and cottage cheese instead of milk, which is usually the pancake ingredient we’re most likely to be out of around here. (Also yogurt and cottage cheese keep a little better, too.) Now that it is warm enough for Tracy granola breakfasts, we’ve almost always got yogurt in the house, so all we have to do is remember to get cottage cheese now and then so that we can have these now and then as well (like last Sunday morning, for instance). Yum one more time.

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