Monkey Monday: extra-rambly edition. 23 November 2009 10:21 am
Posted by Tracy in : baking,books,breakfast,cookies,cooking,fangirl,geekery,milk,monkeys,random,vegan , 3 commentsBecause I expect everyone will have better things to do over the long weekend than read my blog, and because I have been unable to decide on a regular posting schedule for months now, which might mean not writing anything else postable this week, today’s post is extra-bonus long. There’s lots of Post-Punk Kitchen fangirling, odds and ends about stuff I cooked, upcoming events, and more. Here we go…
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Yay for book review comics! Here’s one for Vegan With a Vengeance. So cute! So awesome! And speaking of that book, I made Isa’s Tempeh Helper for dinner last night, and it was comfort food-alicious (bear in mind, however that I don’t think I’ve ever eaten Hamburger Helper in my life, so I have almost no frame of reference here). Because I had to cut some gnarly-looking bits off the tempeh, I made up the weight difference in cremini mushrooms, which made the end result taste more than a little like the Seitan-Portobello Stroganoff from VWaV, but that’s just another way of saying it was very tasty indeed. (more…)
Foto Friday: more cookies, less ranting. 20 November 2009 12:08 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking,books,cookies,dessert,food as spectator sport,food snobbery,fun,winter squash , 1 comment so farSo yesterday I thought about going out to do some responsible stuff before my 7 PM yoga class, but decided that I would be happier staying at home to restock our supply of delicious instant food. End result bragged to Facebook and Twitter last night:
Final score for Afternoon O’Domesticity: 1 big pot dal, 1 batch punkin spice cookies, 1 pan cornbread, and many dishes done… priceless.
The dal was an extra-spicy version of the recipe I made up out of Nepal nostalgia, and the cornbread and pumpkin cookies are both from my beloved Moosewood New Classics. It’s actually my second batch of these cookies in a week; the first was last Friday, when I decided it was time to use up the leftover canned pumpkin from our Halloween winter squash-stravaganza — only then of course I ended up opening another can of pumpkin, so I was still left with a partial can in the fridge, like when I started, only with more delicious, delicious cookies. Check them out! (more…)
Quick hit: books and writing and fangirling, oh my! 4 November 2009 1:16 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,fangirl,geekery,politics,school,writing , add a commentWell, sanity of the stayed-up-till-3:30-AM-writing sort prevailed, and so today I am not spending six hours going back and forth to New Haven for a two-hour presentation, even one on a topic that interests me so very very much. In the meantime (for instance during that aforementioned staying up until 3:30 AM, all hopped up on coffee and pumpkin cheesecake, nom nom nom), I have been writing the heck out of my policy midterm report about emergency food, in part as described in Janet Poppendieck’s completely freaking brilliant Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement. I thought it was really good before I did a little fieldwork volunteering with Broadway Community Inc./Community Impact, now it gives me goosebumps and (more…)
Looking not too far forward… 3 November 2009 9:18 am
Posted by Tracy in : books,environment,events,geekery,news,nyc,politics,school , add a commentIf I can get my policy midterm done in time, I’m seriously thinking about going out to New Haven tomorrow for the next event in the Rudd Center Seminar Series:
“Changing the Food Environment by Working with Food Stores,”
by Joel Gittelsohn of the Center for Human Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (also the Healthy Stores Project).
Wednesday November 4, 2009
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
309 Edwards Street, Conference Room
New Haven, Connecticut
I mean, that is more or less exactly what I want to write about for my food sociology final…. it even made the New York Times this weekend, which made me super-happy since I had to propose my paper topic in class yesterday. Phew!
Then on Thursday evening (more…)
Monkey Monday: winter squash goodness and more. 2 November 2009 9:47 am
Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,eating,fangirl,Harold McGee,health at every size,kitchen mishaps,monkeys,nyc,reading,seasonality,winter squash , 2 commentsFun fact! In some dialects of English (but not mine), the word “pumpkin” is used to refer to all winter squash, not just the orange hard-skinned kinds used to make pies and jack-o-lanterns (and other tasty things, some of which I will be describing later in this post). In my experience, this is mostly a Southern Hemisphere/British usage, but I welcome a more substantial analysis than my touchy-feely “I think this is how it works.” Meanwhile, in this Northern Hemisphere, between Halloween and the end of Daylight Savings Time it’s officially winter in my brain, and for the past week or so I have been marking the changing season by eating lots of winter squash, including pumpkin. Yum.
For starters, (more…)
