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Shameless showing off. 23 April 2008 8:29 pm

Posted by Tracy in : breakfast, pictures, Morning Glory, baking, cooking , 1 comment so far

Guess what’s playing at my favorite local hippie café from now until it runs out?

That’s right, Tracy granola. Like it says right in the Flickr caption, I am so proud. (more…)

Photo post: potatoes in progress! 22 April 2008 10:06 am

Posted by Tracy in : potatoes, garden, pictures , add a comment

So a few Monkey Mondays ago, I realized that it was Saint Patrick’s Day during the International Year of the Potato, and set out to celebrate it in my garden (like you do). A quick glance at the information available online about potato cultivation suggested that it’s possible to do so in containers, so I broke out a bucket: (more…)

Monkey Monday: books, chocolate, and mushrooms 21 April 2008 6:18 pm

Posted by Tracy in : meat, geekery, not even vegetarian, vegan, vegetarian, friends, books, cooking , 3 comments

This week in Tracy’s culinary schizophrenia: thanks to the best library hold request coincidence ever, I’m currently borrowing and thoroughly enjoying both The River Cottage Meat Book and Veganomicon. To my ever-loving surprise, they have not mutually annihilated, and I am very happy to recommend them both. Highly. Oh, and by the way, I first learned about The River Cottage Meat Book by reading The Ethics of What We Eat by Peter “Animal Liberation” Singer, so give me some veg*n-geek cred at least. Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall, author of The River Cottage Meat Book, is quite the (food) geek himself; even in his picture on the book’s spine, he looks like a sensitive nerd who faced up to the horrors of factory farms and resolved to find the best way possible to not give up eating bacon. The text of his book does not contradict that first impression, oh no. I find it quite charming, as well as his chatty, somewhat imprecise recipes, and above all his devotion to the pleasures of cooking as well as those of eating, which of course is a subject very near and dear to my own heart. Regular readers of this blog already know of my unholy love (no pun intended) for The Post-Punk Kitchen and all its works of delicious awesomeness (see, um, here for lots of examples). (more…)

Saturday specials menu. 19 April 2008 2:07 pm

Posted by Tracy in : work, pictures, Morning Glory, news, vegan, vegetarian , 1 comment so far

It’s that time again (and now that I’m taking over the Friday closing shift, I should be able to really keep up with getting these posted sooner than Monday, when ingredients are already starting to run out):

Also, I’m happy to report that Gail is working on an official website for Morning Glory, and she liked my idea of posting the weekly specials menu, so if all goes according to plan (I know, it never does, but let me dream) I’ll be able to follow the café’s delicious developments even after leaving Eugene. Yay!

Happy weekend, everybody.

Restaurants remembered: Taco Loco, Laguna Beach, CA 16 April 2008 4:55 pm

Posted by Tracy in : pictures, reviews, vegan, vegetarian, eating, restaurants , add a comment

I find myself all sentimental and full of remembrances of the past ten or so years now that it’s all official-ish that we’re moving to the East Coast (and speaking of which, I spent a nerve-wracking few minutes on the phone with NYU graduate admissions yesterday morning, confirming that I was in no danger of meeting any deadlines even though April 15 is a pretty common “reply by” date — phew!) If I had a TARDIS, I would use it to borrow some money from my future self with which to spend a month or so touring the West Coast with Peter in the TARDIS and on our tandem, visiting people and eating at whichever of our favorite places are still around (although I guess with a time machine I could even go back to our closed favorite places when they were still in business… dude, where is my TARDIS? I digress.) One place I’d definitely like to revisit is Taco Loco of Laguna Beach. (more…)