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Jan 8, 2009 • Comments Closed I’m trying to clear out a few jars from the pantry for the new year. Things I don’t eat so often, and should probably stop buying. This finishes the brown lentils (which I seldom eat), and makes the jar available for dried figs (which I use all the time in my muesli). olive oil 1...
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Jan 6, 2009 • Comments Closed Here’s what I knitted in 2008: 1. Monochrome afghan, 2. Finished, Yoda is, 3. Scrubby, 4. Gah!, 5. Hot water bottle cover for Erica, 6. Baby socks, 7. Big green cowl action shot, 8. Submarine cable socks, 9. Sock in progress, 10. Cowl, 11. Green hat, 12. Vest – complete, 13. Noro striped scarf, 14....
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Jan 1, 2009 • Comments Closed Over on Infotropism I’ve just made 52 resolutions for the new year. Here, crossposted, are the subset which I’ll be blogging about on the OEconomist, since they’re more on-topic for this blog than that one. For the last few years I’ve tried to make resolutions that are both easy and fun to keep. Notable examples...
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Dec 25, 2008 • Comments Closed Invented recipe, with inspiration from Rancho Gordo. 6-10 de Arbol chillis (RG sells them), stems removed 4 cloves garlic, skin on 1 can tomatoes (I used Muir Glen fire roasted tomatoes with chipotle) slosh of vinegar Toast chillis and garlic in a skillet. Remove skin from garlic then blend everything together in a food processor....
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Dec 7, 2008 • Comments Closed At some point in my life I started to hate baked beans. I ate them as a small kid, but somewhere along the line I started to dislike mushy, bland food, and tinned baked beans had that horrible mushy tastelessness that made me want to barf. It’s not that I had any objection to beans...
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Dec 6, 2008 • Comments Closed I need to do some menu planning for the coming week, and thought I might do it here and share it. The shape of my week Friday (today) – home for an early dinner, going out after. Saturday – out at a class during the day, so I miss the market and also need to...
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Dec 1, 2008 • Comments Closed My first US thanksgiving, and I managed to snag a handful of turkey leftovers from our very generous hosts. So I get to make a post about my first ever thanksgiving leftover efforts. Turkey, kale, and bean soup One onion, diced Slurp of oil Generous pinch of chili flakes 1/2 to 1L chicken stock about...
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Nov 30, 2008 • Comments Closed This is Betty: My new apartment was last renovated in the 1940s, I think, and Betty — or rather, her crotchety sister — was part of that deal. Her sister didn’t work out so well, but the landlord managed to replace her with something very similar when I moved in. Shown cooking on top of...
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Nov 30, 2008 • Comments Closed (Crossposted to my top three blogs.) I blog in a number of places. Here’s a summary of where you can find me currently. Infotropism is my general-purpose blog on my personal website. Often techie, but also covers travel, politics, and whatever else is on my mind. If you know me professionally or quasi-professionally then this...
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Nov 30, 2008 • Comments Closed Once again, a while since I did this. The last haul I photographed was in September, when it was all about the high summer ingredients: eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, and the like. This month we’re past the tomatoes and what I was mostly seeing at the farmers’ market was squash/pumpkins, persimmons, and early citrus of every...
I have a plastic tub of jam in the fridge, left over from the summer’s jam-making. I didn’t have enough jars, so some of it got set aside and I thought I’d make jam tarts at some future date. Well, last night I started on my jam tart experiments, and I just wanted to record...
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Oct 4, 2008 • Comments Closed Way back at the start of the year I said that this year should be a year of sweaters, or jumpers as we call them in Australia. I’d tried to knit a couple of jumpers before, but something always went wrong. Now with the help of Ravelry I felt a lot more confident, so I...
