Happy birthday to me! 28 August 2008 11:18 am
Posted by Tracy in : books, eating, good news, health , 4 commentsHere’s some good news from the browser tabs I should’ve closed a week ago: for the past more than a month, the New York Times health blog, Well, has been reporting about researchers finally publishing some common sense about diets, weight, and health. I hope you all have read about this already, but it’s important enough (and makes me happy enough) that it seems well worth repeating. So here, some birthday gifts of good news: (more…)
Fun facts! 6 August 2008 3:33 pm
Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, books, news, not even vegetarian, work , 2 commentsI started writing these on Friday, for extra bonus alliteration points, when I discovered that our toaster oven does not work unless it is plugged in (I know, I know, dur-hurrrrr, but in these exciting times I’m not exactly the swiftest). Then I got distracted (no big surprise). Whatever. The toaster oven was unplugged because Peter installed shiny new GFCI outlets in the kitchen, thus satisfying (more…)
I’m having some kind of food geek peak experience right now… 25 June 2008 8:57 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books, cooking, geekery, monkeys , 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!
Recent reading roundup! 20 May 2008 10:31 am
Posted by Tracy in : books, geekery, news, vegetarianism , add a commentWhile I’m playing catch-up (must run to work very soon!), here’s a not-so-small selection of awesome things I’ve read or bookmarked to read so far this month, sort of organized into themes. I did my best to start and end with fun things, with a good mix of light and heavy in between. (more…)
Monkey Monday: NYC trip, garden update, and more! 19 May 2008 8:58 am
Posted by Tracy in : Marion Nestle, baking, books, cooking, eating, events, fangirl, garden, pictures, school, travel , add a commentFirst and foremost, readers, if you like my banana bread recipe, I’d really appreciate your giving it (and me) some love over at Not Quite Nigella’s banana bread recipe collection roundup, which got an amazing 79 replies. If you don’t like my banana bread recipe, there might be something over there that’s more your speed — heck, there may be something over there for you even if you don’t usually like banana bread, the responses are that diverse! However, if you never, ever like banana bread, then you should under no circumstances click that last link, because there is nothing there for you. (But seriously, check it out. And vote for me!)
In other news, I had a great time in NYC, (more…)
