Archive for the ‘cooking & food’ Category
I think I am a pretty normal/average grocery shopper. I tend to spend a bit too much on food, I buy meat, I don’t always buy organic, I buy cookies/popsicles/treats sometimes. That all sounds normal, right? Things have been slowly changing over the past however many years and i have been enjoying reading about nutrition [...]
We did not miss the tomato harvest in our backyard and I am so happy about that! I have picked many many bowls full of cherry tomatoes, the funky shaped heirlooms are just ripening and the regular I can’t remember what kind of tomatoes are juuust getting ready to ripen. So far I have made [...]
Too many zucchinis: Vm becomes obsessed with lacto-fermentation: First he made whey and cream cheese with some strauss organic yogurt and then used the whey to make beet kvass. I think beet kvass is an acquired taste. I like it now! Poor Jack asked to taste it and spit it out and screamed I HATE [...]
The backyard is pleasingly bursting forth with the harvest. Farmer Jack and I went out this morning and picked an assload (
I’n not so sure I want there to be life after coffee even if it’s clear that no coffee is better for me. I finished up my 21 day detox diet last week. It was a diet that my acupuncturist recommend. She had a seminar about it and then ran a group diet. It was [...]
The trouble with gardening for me is that it takes a long time, it’s uncertain what the outcome might be and also that there are too many options. Maybe that’s why people choose to have big lawns, it’s just an easier choice. I’m against a lawn personally, it seems like such a massive waste of [...]
Every time I go to make hard boiled eggs I have to look up in my Hints from Heloise that my mom gave me when I moved out of the house. Well, honestly, now I just look on the internet but I do stil have that book and I do still consult it occasionally! What [...]
It’s another week for me to cook for Jack’s school. Tuesday menu snack: – red and green grapes – cut up cantalope – trail mix Lunch – chicken (2 breasts, organic) cooked in olive oil with salt and cut into strips – carrots cut into cute shapes with these, – brown rice with the cutout [...]
We ordered 40 pounds of tomatoes from Terra Firma Farm and set to work canning them last week. Or was it two weeks ago?! It was our first time canning tomatoes and it went well! The tomoatoes were so pretty I had to take lots of pictures. Whoever packed this box for me lined them [...]
I just realized I don’t know anyone else going to BlogHer Food. Anyone?
This week is my week to cook for Jack’s new school, which I will blog about a bit later. I have to cook a meal, and transport it, for 9 toddlers and 4 adults. This is stressing me out on a few levels. First of all, we just moved like 2 days ago and I [...]
Fast easy way to infuse alcohol (or whatever) with fun flavors. I blogged a while back about making Earl Grey infused Vodka (I highly recommend this!) and you can use this iSi Cream Whipper method to do it quickly on the spot. Fun! This article by the Cooking Issues Blog gives very detailed instructions on [...]
I’m excited about the Eat Real Festival this weekend happening at Jack London Square. I’ll be hanging around from 10am to 1pm doing something unspecified with the Oakland Museum of California and then I plan on hanging out and seeing stuff. Like the chicken 101 class and the goat milking demo. See whole weekend schedule [...]
My sister traveled to England recently and lamented the fact that she couldn’t find any suitably hilarious punk commemorative tea towels. So, obviously, I had to quickly dash off a few Sex Pistols inspired tea towel designs to Spoonflower for printing. First, the classic calendar style tea towel with sid vicious and some paint splatters: [...]
We attempted a plum jam last week. Plums were picked at a friends house and we bought some strawberries to add. We also added allspice and cinnamon. I was a bit scattered while we were making it and added the pectin at the wrong time. So the jam didn’t really gel like it should have. [...]
I’ma freak. I was going to be somewhat in the neighborhood anyway so why not go the extra… mile (or so) to get my old favorite the WILD AND NUTTY TURKEY SALAD SANDWICH?! No reason not to. I ate two. the thing is, I get obsessed with like one or two kids of food and [...]
I stopped by Blue Bottle Coffee last week to get a coffee before a playdate. I ordered a latte as usual but then asked instead for an iced latte. The barista said oh no, adding ice to a latte makes it bitter, I’ll make you an iced coffee. So he hands me an iced coffee [...]
I just made some kale chips with some slightly wilted kale from my fridge. It was okay. I washed it, dried it, cut out the spine, tossed in olive oil and apple cider vinegar, spread on pan and sprinkled with sesame seeds and baked at 350 for a while. I may have over baked. then [...]
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