Musical Monkey Monday! 8 June 2009 1:17 pm
Posted by Tracy in : events,fangirl,fun,garden,geekery,monkeys,random,summer , 2 commentsFirst, I would like to share a Malvina Reynolds song:
with thanks to Echidne of the Snakes for pointing me to this and other videos.
Next, check out this lovely bit of food blogging by the always thought-provoking David Bryne and then, if you’re in the New York area, join me for the man’s free concert in Prospect Park tonight! So awesome! (The weather does not look promising, but I’ll be the one dancing like no one is watching, in clothes that stay warm when wet.)
And finally, speaking of free concerts, I’d like to introduce you to my new favorite NYC street performer: (more…)
Wednesday Greenmarket wackiness! 27 May 2009 9:06 am
Posted by Tracy in : fun,funny,nyc,pictures,random,summer , 1 comment so farSo one of these days I’m going to figure out how to incorporate my Twitter feed into this blog, for short attention span theater TracyFood, like this example from two Wednesdays ago:
Trying to confirm rumors of Greenmarket rhubarb. No luck so far, but hope springs eternal etc.
12:45 PM May 6th from txtWas going to whine about not having bought a laurel plant when I had the chance, got distracted: Cirque du Soleil at market. <3 this town.
1:08 PM May 6th from txt
Completely 100% true story! I have pictures to prove it: (more…)
An open love letter to green beans. 28 August 2007 12:03 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,CSA,eating,garden,local food,recipes,seasonality,summer,vegan,vegetarian , add a commentOkay, so this is a cut-and-paste from my Open Letters project, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Besides, it’s my birthday, so I get to do whatever I want, including slack off a little. I wrote this letter in 2006, before that year’s pole beans kicked in and I learned that they are the secret to finally growing enough green beans to bring some inside, but all the parts about the love are still 110% true. And the recipe sneakily concealed in this epistle is so darn tasty that I may even write it up as its own entry someday. (more…)
Monkey Monday: my birthday came early edition 27 August 2007 11:02 pm
Posted by Tracy in : eating,eugene,friends,garden,restaurants,summer,vegan,vegetarian , 4 commentsMy birthday isn’t for a little under an hour in this time zone, but it feels like I’ve been celebrating for days. As previously mentioned, my parents are visiting, and today I got home from work just in time to watch Peter put the final brushes of blue paint on the trim of our newly yellow house. Yay! (Every time my parents visit, they do a project. This one is extra awesome.) Also, yesterday was Kitchen Garden Day and we had a fabulous dinner, and we also ate a super-delicious family-style dinner at Iraila the night before that (Saturday). The festivities will really kick into gear with a total lunar eclipse that’s just a few hours away (more astronomy nerdery here), but that’s not exactly edible (except in the Cookie Monster song “If Moon Were Cookie”) so the rest of this post will be about more delicious celebrations and my plans for making this Green Bean Appreciation Week. (more…)
Recipe: Roasted Summer Vegetables 24 August 2007 9:55 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,CSA,eating,local food,recipes,seasonality,summer,vegan,vegetarian , add a commentThis is an approximation of the roasted vegetables I made for dinner on Wednesday night, based on a recipe I wrote up on Everything2 way back in the day when dinosaurs roamed the earth. My favorite cookbook reference for roasted vegetables (and many other things, of course) is Moosewood Restaurant New Classics, specifically the Roasted Vegetables for Pasta and Roasted Winter Vegetables recipes, although my version of their Moroccan Roasted Vegetables was a big hit at Sundance (but the story of that particular stalker will have to wait for another time). Anyway. Those recipes are particularly useful when I’m not sure how thick to cut up various vegetables, but mostly this cooking method is super-forgiving, and I make a lot up myself as I go along, without really measuring anything. So take my amounts with a grain of salt. (more…)
