Monkey Monday: happy salad season! 30 June 2008 1:03 pm
Posted by Tracy in : salad, nutrition, seasonality, news, eating, cooking , 3 commentsSo a New York Times health blog headline caught my eye this morning: The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating, and when I clicked through, the images at the top of the post made me laugh. Why? Well, they had pictures of beets and cabbage, and this is what I had for dinner on Saturday night:
Yep, that’s coleslaw, beet salad, and my favorite lentil salad (that last on a bed of spinach). (more…)
I’m having some kind of food geek peak experience right now… 25 June 2008 8:57 pm
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, monkeys, books, cooking , add a comment…if you’d like to share it with me, go check out Time magazine’s writeup of Harold “On Food and Cooking” McGee in their special 2008 Time 100 “most influential people” issue. Here it is, in all its glory, by no less a food geek than Mr. Alton Brown himself. I cannot make this stuff up, nor would I want to. (I got the good news from Michael Ruhlman’s blog, this post here.) Instead, I will just do a happy little monkey-geek dance. Next up I will do a happy hungry monkey dance for whatever it is Peter’s making in the kitchen, because my tummy is rumbly and it smells like awesome. Here’s hoping you read this post in circumstances at least as happy as the ones in which it was written. Cheers!
Happy short attention span Friday! 20 June 2008 11:56 am
Posted by Tracy in : pictures, politics, random, work, Morning Glory, eugene, news, cooking , 1 comment so farKeep reading and find out why I’m so distracted!
First, yesterday I cooked for a good cause. Here’s hoping the event was a huge success!
But today I am cleaning for a good cause:
Monkey Monday: sugar high edition (with pictures!) 16 June 2008 9:48 am
Posted by Tracy in : family, pictures, baking, dessert, friends , 1 comment so farSo Piett and Jen’s visit provided me with an opportunity to use up some of the ridiculous overstock in our pantry, which quickly turned into an excuse to make what Peter and I refer to as “a big, dumb dessert” — in this case, white cake with strawberry-almond filling and buttery white frosting:
Foto Friday: excuses, excuses, and another specials menu. 13 June 2008 11:25 pm
Posted by Tracy in : breakfast, garden, pictures, family, food safety, not even vegetarian, eggs, seasonality, work, eating, restaurants, meta, eugene, Morning Glory, news, cooking , add a commentHey everybody! I’m not dead in a ditch! Here’s some quick hints about what I’ve been up to instead of posting here:
In next week’s posts, I’ll actually write captions for all those and (more…)
