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Wednesday weirdness: ginger condensation? 19 May 2010 1:44 pm

Posted by Tracy in : cooking,ingredients,photos,random,silly,weird , View Comments

So yesterday, as planned in the end of my last post, I made a batch of Tracy granola, and noticed something weird when I measured out the ginger, from this jar here:

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Just the standard Fairway-brand ground ginger, see?

But what’s that on the inside of the lid there? What is it? (more…)

Recent moments of awesomeness. 25 February 2009 6:00 pm

Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,friends,fun,ingredients,pictures,random,restaurants , View Comments

So I didn’t have the most competent Tuesday afternoon — barely left the house in time to make the talk at the library, only to be thwarted by trains and get there fifteen minutes late. Argh. Good thing they’re doing that talk again on March 18; I’ll try to give myself more of a head start then (or I’ll be out doing something awesome for spring break, and either way the expected value is pretty darn good).

Anyway.

I wandered off from the library, grumpy at myself and feeling socially awkward, only to spy this FreshDirect ad, which made me so happy I almost forgot about my little blunder:

Yay!

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Foto Friday: a surprise discovery at IKEA. 12 December 2008 4:18 pm

Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,consumerism,cooking,dessert,eating,food snobbery,ingredients,pictures , View Comments

Look what I found at IKEA last Sunday!

Stroop!

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Monkey Monday: so much mystery meat! 29 September 2008 8:48 am

Posted by Tracy in : Marion Nestle,advice,consumerism,food safety,food snobbery,health,ingredients,meat,monkeys,mystery meat,news,politics , View Comments

Seriously, kids, was it International “Make Tracy Happy to Avoid Mystery Meat” Week and nobody told me? I just kept finding more and more news stories and blog posts to that effect. Also, on a metaphorical level, the TracyFood comment spam just kept pouring in — I broke 16,000 17,000 deleted comments over the weekend (number edited on Sunday morning after I started the post on Friday night). Woo? But seriously, all the scary meat news you can read:

22 September: Sucks to be a factory-farmed pig.

Last Monday, U.S. Food Policy alerted me to a news report about pig abuse at factory farms. The official Associated Press news piece is here, along with a video which I cannot bring myself to watch. You can click through to the full piece without being forced to watch the video, but (more…)

Ask TracyFood: about my granola 9 September 2008 10:10 am

Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory,advice,baking,breakfast,cooking,health,ingredients,restaurants , View Comments

So a few weeks ago, I got an email:

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Hi, Tracy.

I heard that Padnah’s Pit BBQ is now serving Tracy’s Granola.

First, is this your granola?

If so, is it gluten free? (i.e. no wheat products, rye or barley … and are the oats from a dedicated, wheat-free source, such as Bob’s Red Mill?)

Many of us are gluten intolerant or have full-blown Celiac disease, and most granola uses oats that share process facilities with wheat flour manufacturing, so every grain of oats has a small amount of flour on it, making it dangerous.

If you’re the one making this granola people are raving about and you have not been processing it with gluten free ingredients, your market would increase HUGELY if you began doing so and labeled the packaging with “GLUTEN FREE”.

I appreciate your time and hope to hear from you …. I miss granola!

Sincerely,

Carolyn
Portland, OR

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Here’s what I wrote back: (more…)