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Foto Friday: excuses, excuses, and another specials menu. 13 June 2008 11:25 pm

Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, breakfast, cooking, eating, eggs, eugene, family, food safety, garden, meta, news, not even vegetarian, pictures, restaurants, seasonality, work , add a comment

Hey 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…)

What’s in my freezer? 15 May 2008 9:04 am

Posted by Tracy in : events, food storage, not even vegetarian, pictures , add a comment

So Chez Us asked a good question a little more than a week ago, and a day or two after that I finally got around to taking a picture of the contents of my freezer, and a day or two after that I got distracted by this little trip to the East Coast. (New York City, by the way, is still made of awesome.) While I was easily able to name three things without looking for the Vegan MoFo survey a while back, listing the full contents of my freezer is difficult even when I’m staring it cold in the face. Now, for my amusement (and hopefully yours as well) I’m going to attempt to respond to that very good question from all the way across the country, just by looking at those week-or-so-old pictures. Here goes!

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

Posted by Tracy in : books, cooking, friends, geekery, meat, not even vegetarian, vegan, vegetarian , 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…)

Monkey Monday: back to randomness. 14 April 2008 9:40 pm

Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, books, friends, meat, meta, monkeys, news, not even vegetarian, restaurants, travel , 2 comments

News from my browser tabs, off the top of my head, and beyond:

Did you hear that the only female head waiter at Per Se wrote a book about the experience? From that article, it sounds like it could be fun if you’re into that whole behind-the-scenes-at-restaurants thing. Especially if you’re curious about super-extreme high end fine dining.

But maybe you’re more in the mood for (more…)

Monkey Monday: many confessions edition. 24 September 2007 2:43 pm

Posted by Tracy in : cooking, eating, health, meat, not even vegetarian, seasonality, soup, travel , 3 comments

In which I confess: Friday’s post was so late it went up on Saturday, I forgot the illustration for the miso soup piece, but it’s okay because I’ll use it in another post, I ate a big (for me) steak on Saturday night, and um, I’m going to Nepal next month. I promise to write about the dead cow last and give lots of warnings so everybody who hates that stuff can bail out before then and not have to read it.