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…)
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…)
Saturday surprise post: Liveblogging America’s Test Kitchen 29 March 2008 2:26 pm
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen, geekery, food snobbery, kitchen gear, seasonality, books, vegetarian, Morning Glory, cooking , add a commentAsk me about my fangirlhood! Here I go:
Some time this week when I checked the TV listings: “Reinventing Pasta and Tomatoes” — I accept!
2 PM: Looks like the lineup is penne à la vodka with Becky, pasta tasting with Jack, stockpots with Adam, and pasta caprese with Julia.
I accept again!
2:02 PM: Chris Kimball’s intro: no-name vodka makes raw, harsh sauce — don’t do it.
Off to the kitchen now, where Becky is so earnest.
2:03 PM: They’ve changed food processor brands/models! (more…)
Winter Squash 103: toasting the seeds. 28 February 2008 12:22 pm
Posted by Tracy in : pictures, ingredients, winter squash, seasonality, vegan, eating, vegetarian, cooking , add a commentFebruary is never my favorite time of year, but it’s especially rough in Oregon, where most of the winter looks like the very worst kind of February weather to me — not super-cold, just grey and dark and rainy. There’s usually a nice week in the middle of the month, when the sun comes out and I get my hopes up that winter is over and I can go back to playing in my garden. That week is almost invariably followed by at least a month of meteorological misery (sometimes it even snows on my poor little sproutlings). Not so this year. It’s been a remarkably sunny February, and I’m a little suspicious, like Oregon is trying to lure me into a false sense of security so it can destroy me with hail. I’ve been trying to resist overconfidence, but March is almost here…
All of which is to say that if I want to write about winter squash, I had better hurry up and do it while there’s still a hint of the appropriate season. So. (more…)
Another picture post. 7 February 2008 6:12 pm
Posted by Tracy in : garden, family, pictures, seasonality, friends, cooking , 2 commentsToday’s theme is photographic comfort food.
I nearly tripped over a big box of awesome left at the front door last Thursday: Half a gallon of Grade A dark amber maple syrup, courtesy of my brother Piett, his girlfriend Jen, and her dad’s farm in Vermont. Hot damn is that ever good stuff (we had it on waffles for dinner that very night). (more…)
