"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Food & Snacks on Mar 26th, 2010
Sometimes when I cook dinner and I’m really hungry, I get into a Sveeedish Scheff-like herndy-herndy-bork-bork-borkfrenzy and just start bunging things into a pot and eating the resultant mess.
Posted in biking, Food & Snacks on Oct 7th, 2009
I have a long and colorful history of substituting recipe ingredients. Because of a combination of poor planning and poverty, I frequently find myself looking at a recipe and lacking at least one key ingredient. Today’s foray into the making of home-made power bars was typical, typical, typical. Below, anything you see italicized, is something […]
Posted in Food & Snacks on Sep 21st, 2009
I don’t know if you’ve ever had this experience, but I’ve eaten foods that were specifically touted as being “vegan” that basically taste like you hate yourself for eating it. I’m thinking specifically of this particular vegan soup at a local restaurant that has a bizarre and inappropriate, slightly sweet grain/nut flavor, as though the […]
Posted in Food & Snacks, Garden on Sep 1st, 2009
I have just made the best baba ghanoush I’ve ever made so far in my life. Fresh, fresh, fresh eggplant right out of the garden, grilled over the embers of a backyard bonfire is probably the main reason it turned out so well. I grilled up two of the eggplants I found the other day, […]
Posted in Food & Snacks on Apr 7th, 2009
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 cup dark-brown sugar 1tsp baking powder 1tsp baking soda 1/2 cup milk (or liquid chai mix, eggnog, coffee, whatever) 1/2 cup vegetable oil (canola or light olive oil, ususally) 1 small container of egg substitute (1/2 cup, methinks–equivalent of a large egg) Put the dry ingredients in a […]
Posted in Food & Snacks on Mar 27th, 2009
1.25 cups warm water 1 tbsp sugar 1 packet dry yeast (approx .5 tbsp) 4 C. flour (can do half whole-wheat/half white) 2 tbsp vegetable oil 1 tbsp molassas 1.5 tsp salt (if using half whole wheat, I add 2 tsp gluten powder so they stick together better) Pour warm water into a large mixing […]
Posted in Food & Snacks on Mar 27th, 2009
1 stick of butter 1 cup of sugar (white or brown, depending on what flavor you want) 1 egg (or 1/4 c. egg substitute) 2 tsp baking soda 2 c. flour Cream butter & sugar. Mix in egg thoroughly. Mix in soda, then stir in the flour gradually. The dough should be fairly stiff. If […]
Posted in Food & Snacks on Mar 27th, 2009
Joel’s mom, Nancy has given me a couple of her recipes recently; one is for mead, the other was for granola. Along with the granola recipe, she sent over her old enameled Dutch Oven that she used to always use for baking the granola in. That would be the beautiful lemon-yellow pot you see above. […]
Posted in Food & Snacks, Trek 800, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 29th, 2008
Today’s weather is kind of disgusting…it’s sort of rain, sort of snow. Nieve likes it; Ruby is not so sure. I went for a walk earlier anyhow, because I was getting kind of grumpy about being inside, and also I needed to go to the library and print out some documents, since at the time […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Food & Snacks, Oh, for fuck's sake on Nov 24th, 2008
This morning I made a lovely batch of apple-cinnamon muffins, but I totally forgot to put in the sugar. They taste like cinnamonny bread with bits of apple in it. New house rule: no baking before coffee.