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Sep 18, 2009 • A week ago, my friend Rach suggested I turn my back porch into somewhere nice to spend time. I thought about it a bit but wasn’t sure how. Where would I put all the stuff that was stored back there? But I managed to move things around and got some cheap, sheer curtains, and now...
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Sep 16, 2009 • It hardly warrants writing down the recipe, but what the hell. I came home tonight kind of thinking that I’d like to make a frittata. I had bacon and leeks and five eggs, but thinking about it, I realised I wanted a bit more bulk to a frittata, maybe something like some cooked potato, and...
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Sep 14, 2009 • I’ve been eating really badly lately, and I want to get back into good habits, so I’m going to try and post more often. This was tonight’s dinner: puy lentils with bacon, leeks, and a mustard vinaigrette, served over spring greens. On the side, oven-roasted tomatoes. First up, the tomatoes. I got this from one...
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Sep 14, 2009 • Comments Closed Before I moved to California, I would never have eaten a breakfast like this: Yellow corn tortillas, eggs, and some chilli made of Rancho Gordo pebble beans with a sprinkle of cheese on top. They don’t currently have that variety of beans on their website; I’ll have to keep an eye out for more when...
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Jun 22, 2009 • Comments Closed It’s ages since I posted about my knitting. And my WIPs have kind of multiplied. Oops. Recently finished: Two dishcloths in this vile pinky red colour. I like them because they’re the same colour as Dreamwidth‘s “Tropospherical red” site theme. A shawl, from Cheryl Oberle’s “Folk Shawls”. It’s the lacy prairie shawl. A simple triangular...
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Apr 5, 2009 • Comments Closed One of the things that’s been driving me crazy since I left home is that I miss the Asian groceries and Asian food I was surrounded by there. Australia’s really close to south-east Asia, especially Indonesia, and Indonesian and Malaysian food are as readily available where I come from as Central American food is where...
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Jan 26, 2009 • I guess you could say I collect vintage household linens. I have a big basket of linen tea-towels and another of napkins in my kitchen, and somewhere in storage I have a number of table cloths too. (The table cloths don’t get much use when I’m living in a small space with just the kitchen...
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Jan 23, 2009 • Comments Closed First hummus bi tahina and now a cardigan based on Sesame (Rav link). I see a theme to tonight’s posting. Melissa Wehrle’s “Sesame” pattern didn’t come in my size, and apart from that, it’s for DK weight and I had some aran weight yarn I wanted to use. So I used her stripes as an...
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Jan 23, 2009 • Comments Closed What we call “hummus” is generally the tahini-enhanced kind; in the middle east, apparently, all chickpea purees are called that, and they name them more specifically based on the additional ingredients. Anyway, as part of my resolution to cook from every one of my cookbooks this year, I made the “Hummus bi tahina” recipe from...
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Jan 11, 2009 • One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to cook something from every (serious) cookbook I own. I figure if I can’t cook from a cookbook at least once a year, it doesn’t deserve to be on the shelf. Here’s the list of cookbooks I need to cover, and some ideas of things I might like...
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Jan 11, 2009 • Comments Closed Here’s some bulgur and some cracked wheat on a plate together: They’re different. Bob’s Red Mill, I’m looking at you. Your so-called Whole grain bulgur is no such thing. Bulgur is wheat which has been steamed, dried, and then cracked. Cracked wheat skips the steaming and drying process. Bulgur can be prepared just by pouring...
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Jan 8, 2009 • Comments Closed 1) What are some good uses for pesto that are less carby than pasta? I have bucketloads of pesto in the freezer (well, small container loads) but the idea of that much pasta is making me bloat at the very thought. 2) Chickpeas are called garbanzos round here, and I presume that’s because they’re used...
