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are you kidding me?

Posted in general, tagged on April 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Apparently living under the belief that the human-swine-bird flu strain that’s sweepin’ the globe travels by collective unconscious or some other such crap, Egypt has decided to slaughter all its pigs. Some farmers have refused to cooperate, and Health Ministry workers have thus far left without carrying out orders in those cases. By the way, there [...]

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organic, when it’s really worth it

Posted in general, tagged , on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s part of our haul from the farmers market: rainbow chard (just the stems here) and spring onion with garlic—I cooked this a bit before adding the chopped-up leaves. The colors—and flavor—are amazing. I’ve only had chard a few times, all organic, and I don’t see myself trying anything but. There are some things I [...]

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where’s the soba?

Posted in recipes on April 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »

First and foremost, the noodles in yakisoba are not soba. Just get over it and you’ll be fine. I struggled with this for quite some time, then I did some research and came to accept it as a convention. The world has bigger problems. We used to get yakisoba at this little Japanese place downtown when [...]

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just scrape it off

Posted in general on April 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »

All my life I’ve heard “Just scrape it off” whenever a restaurant screwed up my very clearly specified order. Mayo and cheese were the biggest offenders. Then there was “Pick it off,” in the case of sausage or pepperoni on the communal pizza. I pretty much always refused, preferring to go hungry. And today I [...]

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nurture

Posted in general on April 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »

  I originally wrote about a news story (about the Bronx Zoo) that pissed me off and the embedded suggested link to a story (about glowing cloned puppies) that pissed me off even more, but I deleted it. It was super negative and ranty and it’d be more preaching to the choir. Instead I’m writing about [...]

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laughing planet

Posted in eatin' out/in, tagged , on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We’ve now had two days in the 80s here in Portland—in a row—and I’m loving it because, unlike L.A., I know it’ll go back to the 60s and 70s for a while. Because it’s spring and we respect all four seasons ’round these parts. I always joke about the “pasty white pride day parade” on nice [...]

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gadgetry

Posted in general on April 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Found it! A year after our latest move, I found my pastry cutter. It was way, way, way in the back of my gadget cabinet, stuffed inside the pulp-catcher thing for my juicer. (Well aware of the fact that I’m admitting to not having used the juicer in a year.) I don’t have many gadgets. Or [...]

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roasted tomato pasta

Posted in recipes, tagged on April 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »

  More pasta? Yes, more pasta. Why? Because I rather like pasta. What’s not to like? You throw some vegetables on it and call it dinner.  Our sometimes-super weather lately (where but in Portland can you get a tan and be beaten down by hail in the same day?) has had me looking at lighter, simpler [...]

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nugs

Posted in recipes, tagged on April 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Chickalike nugs and pilaf—I can’t help but picture this meal coming out of boxes. But it didn’t! These were made from scratch and it was too easy not to. The pilaf is super simple: •1 c white rice •½ c orzo •2-3 T oil/Earth Balance •2 c water w/bullion or 2 c broth •handful of [...]

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i’ll say it…

Posted in general on April 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I miss Peeps. Stupid not-vegan Peeps. I used to eat them and love them, not just rip them in half and throw them at people so they get half-Peeps stuck to them and get all mad ’cause they’d have little bits of sugary marshmallow on their clothes for the rest of the day. But I [...]

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